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526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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Design & Manufacturing Progress
Today, the design team completed the design on replacements for the Hard Stop Mounting Plates. The replacements will extend the plate back to support the PTO shaft directly above the gearboxes after said shaft was identified as a potential point of failure. The plates also include provisions for a…
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Modified Kicker
Today the kicker plate was shortened. The shorter plate contacts the ball higher up on the ball, giving it a flatter trajectory. A rope was added as a hard stop, which prevents the kicker from contacting the roller system. (There was a video here that has sadly been lost in the archives.) (There…
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Robot Shipped
As of 2:00 PM today the robot was delivered to drayage and confirmation of shipment has been sent to FIRST.
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Robot Crated
The Robot Was Crated Tonight. Final Weights of Shipped Components: Drivebase (without cRio) – 52 lbs Arm – 19 lbs The superstructure was withheld as part of the 65 lb withholding allowance.
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Kickin Balls
(There was a video here that has sadly been lost in the archives.)
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Feb 19 Progress
Today, we (almost) finished assembling the drivetrain and kicker winch gearboxes. We also made further progress on the bumper fabrication. Here’s some photos to pass your time.
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Bumpers and Drilling
Today progress was made on the bumper pieces, including machining the wood and corner brackets. We hope to finish the bumper structure by the end of Friday, to begin material cutting and sewing on Saturday. At this time, I do not expect the bumpers to be complete before ship, as the sewing is…
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Manufacturing, Assembly & Field Construction Progress
MANUFACTURING The manufacturing team worked hard today to machine the ratchets and finish the bar grabbing clamps. The lathe was also hard at work making spacers, standoffs and shafts. ASSEMBLY After the arms returned from the powder coat shop today, several members of the assembly team assembled…
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More Progress
At the proving grounds, multiple teams worked on various parts of the robot to ensure that major components will be complete by the weekend. In the design department, students and mentors completed the PCB design for both the gyroscope carrier and a revised LED driver. The PCB was sent to fab at…
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Effective Immediately
Due to a manufacturing error we are issuing an immediate recall of part no. 1010081. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you. The part requires a bore to .722 in order to fit onto the 5/8 hex shaft. If you lack the tools necessary to carry out this change please notify us. We…
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Bumper Fabric
We now have bumper fabric. The picture below shows the colors. The material and color looks great in person, better than the picture.
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Robot Wiring
Today, wiring was done on the practice robot. PWM Mapping PWMs are labeled in a counterclockwise fashion, starting with PWM #1 in the upper left corner of the above picture and finishing with PWM #8 in the upper right corner of the picture above.
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