Tornado Mini

Andre, I will let you drive the robot tonight. All you have to do is go to sleep and dream of driving Tornado Mini. But if you pull a Micah (dumb ass driver from last year, for those of you who don't know) I will cause unimaginable damage to your self esteem and/or inflict irreversible bodily damage to your persons.

Sweet dreams.

Jeff, there's always a chance things will explode. I'd actually love to go up against a can of compressed air and see what will happen. THAT WOULD BE SOOOOO AWESOME!

SenaiERI

So it's 3 days till BotsIQ and I haven't started my documentation....I might want to get started on that.

SenaiERI

documentation at nationals is a joke dont stress yourself on it

haha you should have seen our documentation last year... we did it in the hotel room the night before...
i think we got 2 or 3 points out of 15? it was like the lowest score they had ever seen. and we won...

but yeah I'm working on all my documentation now...

I just hand them EVERY single document I ever made about my robot and let them figure it out.

My advice to RE Robotics about docs was to just reference their drawings as much as possible. All the details are in there anyways, so why should you have to do more than just write a summary with words?

That's what I plan on doing, but since this year I actually read ALL the rules and not just the ones that intrested me -_-, I found the line that read "You will not pass inspection without full documentation." I thought this meant they were going to be hardcore on the docs this year but then everyone tells me that it's been like that for years. I guess I'll just do it on the plane ride there. I have spare parts to make anyway.

SenaiERI

Seriously its a joke at nationals compared to up here, they ridiculous about it up here and ours is always done the night before with masking tape tabs and everything.

They actually do interviews up here and i was like the only one to ace it, even beating out alex (each robot has to be a seperate team, each team needed one person interviewed) They dont wanna hear about your bot, they wanna know what botsIQ has been like for you and whats its done lol

Well I'd love to see them try and interview 3-5 members of my team this year. It's gonna be me, myself, and I. Me is annoying but I is decent at machining.

SenaiERI

How fast was the shell?

Isn't it just a bar?

a bar.... bolted to the shell

Calculated (theoretical) : 300 mph
Tested: Unknown. I didn't get a chance to record it's optimized speed, but I'd say 200+ at peak.

This is also the speed at the outer most tip of the bar, if that's of any consequence to you.

EDIT: ...hmm after looking at the other threads, I realized that you are asking all of the full body spinners how fast they were spinning. What are you up to Will? If it's another FBS then great, if not...well i'm watching you. -_-

What rpm, Senai? and yes, I am up to no good

DANG! He wants every detail about every single component. Would you like my acad drawings too? lol
Just kidding of course. Open source FTW.

I don't recall the rpm actually, but I believe it came to be 1500. If you wanted to make sure, you could do the math backwards with given information of 300 mph and a 9" radius.

If you need any more info, don't hesitate to ask.

So were there any changes to this robot for the BBIQ competition?

How did it fare, still in working condition, and did the shell hold up?

If it was entered as Thunderstruck mini, then it suffered some damage in its first match vs Fluffy 3....after that, it won quite a few matches.....I believe