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As the primary driver during Brunswick Eruption, a FIRST Robotics off season event I was able to complete a triple balance with two other robots. This was the only one of the whole competition and helped us win the whole competition.
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A snapshot of our robot jumping into its autonomous mode which allowed us to shoot to balls into the 3 point basket, push extra basket balls onto our side and push the middle bridge down to start our defensive mission.
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Robot is ready to go -- roller on front sucks up basketballs that are then fed into the flywheel based shooter.
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A quick view into how are pneumatic was set up, based around aluminum tanks.
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A quick view of the robot in action.
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A view of our motor controllers(half), made by Texas Instruments. These allowed us to control multiple aspects of how the motor reacted to different situations.
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A view of our pickup system -- proved to be one of the most efficient and reliable systems out of all MAR teams.
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Looking into issue with brushes that help push balls into flywheels.
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Our bridge tipper in action, polyurethane on the top allowed it to slide easily as we rolled onto the bridge.
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Final starting position, basketballs ready to be shot when the round starts.
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Priming the robot for a finals round, were we were able to make all autonomous baskets and triple balance.
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Doing a hard reboot, our robot was having watchdog errors at the time, but we were able to overcome them and win the whole Brunswick eruption competition.
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