[team2039] Re: Successful Competition
- From: Mark Amber <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "team2039@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <team2039@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:24:18 -0500
Nice, that was the plan, just snap it in. Now I want to get that other box
fitted with connectors and we can play with two robots and they will be
interchangeable and stuff
- Mark Amber -
On Mar 24, 2012, at 11:16 PM, Brad Masbruch <bmas99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Most of the electronics worked right away, other than the solenoid (just
> plugged in wrong) and an I/O that was shorting out a digital side card
> (unused, so we just unplugged it once we were able to isolate it). Later, one
> of the PWM wires for the CIM we removed, shorted out across 12 volts (forgot
> to tape the pins after we took it out) and melted some of the wiring in the
> chassis Victor box. I believe it fried the common ground since all of them
> stopped working, so we just ran PWM cables direct from the digital side card
> to the chassis Victors. We had some exciting moments, but all-in-all, the
> electrical went really well.
>
> Brad
>
> On Mar 24, 2012 10:57 PM, "Mark Amber" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry I could not be there with you, it must have been exciting. I had Two
> very successful runs of Fiddler on the Roof, I had lots of fun with that. I
> saw you on the live stream, we were a real powerhouse of a shooter, we should
> have saved our pass to championships for this year because with some tweaking
> and that practice bot we could have gone far.
>
> So what did you end up using, did the nice electronics box plug right in? Did
> everything work?
>
> - Mark Amber -
>
> On Mar 24, 2012, at 10:34 PM, Brad Masbruch <bmas99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I want to congratulate everyone on a very successful competition. I'm
> > proud of what we accomplished these last 3 days. After a long build season
> > we went to the competition with high hopes that we had a well functioning
> > robot. When we got there we were over weight on our shooter, over weight
> > on our robot, lost distance in our shooter, then had inconsistent shooting
> > distances, and fried some electronics (and this was just Thursday).
> > Instead of getting discouraged, we thought quick on our feet and worked
> > hard. After all the re-design, re-wiring, re-working, and re-programming,
> > we ended up with one of the most consistent scoring robots at the
> > competition. We may have not won it all, but you should be proud of the
> > robot you made and all your hard work over the past several weeks. I know
> > I am.
> >
> > Brad Masbruch
>
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