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Bloomfield Girls Robotics Competition
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In 2010, former team member Eddie died of cancer. We have chosen to name our robot after him.
You can download a 3D CAD model of Eddie here.
Technical Description
Eddie was designed to compete in this year's FIRST Robotics Competition. What follows is a complete description of its mechanical workings, and the solutions our team created to overcome this year's challenges.
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You can download a 3D CAD model of Eddie here.
Technical Description
Eddie was designed to compete in this year's FIRST Robotics Competition. What follows is a complete description of its mechanical workings, and the solutions our team created to overcome this year's challenges.
- Eddie is capable of collecting foam basketballs from the floor using a belted roller mechanism at the front of the robot. This same mechanism transports the foam balls upward to the shooting mechanism. Balls are shot into goals via a spinning wheel shooter simmilar to those used by baseball and tennis ball auto-launching machines. The shooter is calibrated for high, close-range shots to maximize accuracy.
- Eddie's drive train is a six-wheel, non-drop-center base powered by four CIM motors. One end of the robot has high-traction wheels to mazimize pushing power, whereas the other has omnidirectional wheels to increase turning ability.
- Eddie is capable of traversing and balancing on the bridges that separate the field through the use of a wedge-like mechanism, known by team members as the flipticulator. The device is pneumatically extended outside the robot as Eddie approaches the bridges; from there, drivers need only accelerate toward the bridge, and the wedge will force it down, allowing Eddie to climb atop it.