2014 Past Robot Design Inspirations

Wow! What a game that we have this year! It is certainly built to provide a lot of different robot designs. This is a working article series that discusses past robots that could give inspiration to the current game challenge.

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Past Robot Design Inspiration 1

FRC 1771

Game Year: 2008

CAD: www.frcdesigns.com/designs-2008/

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Good luck teams!

Past Robot Design Inspiration 2

FRC 1126

Game Year: 2008

This robot inspiration comes from a team that I was able to personally work with. There are a few systems on the robot that could apply to this game to complete some major game elements including:

Assists

Passing

Catching

Truss Scoring

Low Goal Scoring

High Goal Scoring

Robot Name: “Tickling Scorpion”

Acquisition:

Two arms that are able to be rotated about 180 degrees mechanically

“Hands” with two “fingers” are connected to arms. The “hands” open and close with small pneumatic cylinder

System able to “trap” and “herd” the ball along the ground and well as pick up and rotate the ball to the catapult

Catapult:

Original inspiration came from a broken shop stool

A pneumatic tubing group is attached near the pivot point of the catapult

A winch system pulls the catapult back into position

A small pneumatic cylinder attach to a lever locks the “charged” catapult into place

Catapult legs act as funnel to corral the ball into place

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Good luck teams!