Code Red Kicker Prototypes

Submitted by istvan.burbank on Sat, 01/30/2010 - 00:33

You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.

Here is some of the footage of a few of our kicker designs. We voted on using the spinner one, with a few additions. We will mount the spinner on sliding rails, and add a 'grate' to the front of the robot so that we can plow the ball around and then slide the kicker into it when we are ready to kick. We have attached idlers to the assembly so that the kickback doesn't damage the motors/gearbox and we are using different motors. Lastly, we are adding weights to the end of the spindles to act as a flywheel.

The driving of the test bot at the end is just for fun, we are building our own frame, but I liked the clip :)

~Enjoy, Istvan.