This seems like a chill ass team. Love it

Lol respect the spin up in the background

Throwing cubes at my teammates has been my favorite thing about this season so far 😂

@adambrest

Жыл бұрын

This and the rapid react balls from last year :)

@adamsdiwhy

Жыл бұрын

@@adambrest those are a bit more dangerous

This is crazy we had the same intake design before switching to something slightly more mechanically simple. Good stuff guys and good luck!

@adambrest

Жыл бұрын

This intake just uses three laser-cut pieces of Delrin. We chose this over something pneumatically actuated (for the cone) just for reliability and simplicity. What kind of intake do you have?

@viradeus4322

Жыл бұрын

@@adambrest It's two axles with a combination of green squishy wheels and blue stealth wheels. The distance is just right so it can hold onto and secure a cone and cube without popping it. The cube can expand since there is space created but the stealth wheels but the friction from all the wheels keeps everything in place. The cube becomes a bit deflated after being released BUT hey we don't get points off for that ;)

This is the only intake I've seen this year that is actually good.

@LR-qi9rj

Жыл бұрын

Lol what? Everybot intake? 3 pinch roller? 4481's turntable indexer? The list goes on

@1piemanpie

Жыл бұрын

Have you seen the everybot?

@broken8150

Жыл бұрын

To be more specific, this year's competition doesn't work well with a flat intake, to be successful it has to be at an angle or vertical to the game pieces to actually pick it up using the ground for leverage instead of just pushing it around and hoping it sucks it in. I've only really seen flat intakes this year.

@broken8150

Жыл бұрын

My team went simple and have a single axis arm on a vertical IGUS rail, the arm has a wrist joint that rotates and is attached to a claw, the claw only has one of the "talons" moving so the other is stationary for tighter compression.

@adambrest

Жыл бұрын

We agree. Our main use case for this intake is from the loading station slider. This makes it really good for a top-down intake. Aside from the auton rush, most will be picked up from the top. Our V2 intake will aim to do both, though.

drop the first guys snap 🥵

@aaryamishra4677

Жыл бұрын

@adam-brest

Very neat! Is this for HP substation or ground?

@LR-qi9rj

Жыл бұрын

looks like a hp station intake, since they have to go directly over the tip of the cone

@adambrest

Жыл бұрын

This intake iteration proves to only be effective with upright cones. However, since we have a swerve drive, intaking it from the ground with vision doesn’t seem too bad. We are coming up with a second intake version that allows for better floor pickup with less precision, especially with the cone. This intake version also is chunkier than it needs to be. We might use some 6mm aluminum in the waterjet to really shrink it down.

Is that Sequam robotics?!

Why not collapse the outer wheels with a piston to pull the cone in faster?

@adambrest

Жыл бұрын

That's a good idea, and in our testing, we really need to bring the intake low to the ground to intake the cone. We are just a little hesitant to rely on pneumatics

But when you do the competition cones will be on its side my robotics number is 4663

@adambrest

Жыл бұрын

We don't think that picking up cones from their side is very important.

Can you guys do tipped cones?

@adambrest

Жыл бұрын

With this version of the intake, no. However, we analyzed the game and came to the conclusion that tipped cones shouldn’t be a big priority. Most of the cycles will come from the loading station, so they will start upright anyways. And if any of the cones are tipped, we can still pick them up using the same intake and place them in the hybrid nodes.

What if the cone is knocked over?

@adambrest

Жыл бұрын

We don't think that knocked over cones are a big priority. During auton, the cones start upright anyways. And during the match, we will cycle to the loading zone repeatedly where the cones are also upright. Worse case, tipped cones can be pushed into the hybrid node.