{"id":1098,"date":"2017-02-07T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anacortesrobotics.org\/teams\/frc3238\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2017-09-11T13:04:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T20:04:42","slug":"a-tale-of-two-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anacortesrobotics.org\/teams\/frc3238\/a-tale-of-two-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Houston, we were all going direct the other way\u2013in short,\u00a0our first robot was not quite up to snuff\u00a0(Charles Dickens). The first robot that our team is building this season has been\u00a0completed, and the team has realized that there are\u00a0a few, maybe even more than a few, issues with several of the systems. Thus, we have begun a new robot!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/a-tale-of-two-robots-week-4\/dsc_0059-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5719\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5719 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_0059-300x200.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_0059-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_0059-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_0059-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"455\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new chassis is almost completed, so we will be able to begin mounting the manipulators in only a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/a-tale-of-two-robots-week-4\/dsc_0139-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5717\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5717 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_0139-300x200.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_0139-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_0139-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_0139-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The climbing system and collecting system have also had a few tweaks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/a-tale-of-two-robots-week-4\/dsc_0128-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5718\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5718 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_0128-1-300x200.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_0128-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_0128-1-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_0128-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"441\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year, our team makes two complete, final versions of each manipulator system, so that at our\u00a0competitions, we can replace them very easily if they break. This also means that the manipulators have to be modular\u00a0so that they are easily replaceable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/a-tale-of-two-robots-week-4\/dsc_0045-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5720\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5720 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_0045-300x200.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_0045-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_0045-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/team3238.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_0045-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team looks forward to the completion of the second robot, as well as to the beginning of driver practice and the upcoming Steamworks competition season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/anacortesrobotics.org\/teams\/frc3238\/a-tale-of-two-robots\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-build-season","category-frc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anacortesrobotics.org\/teams\/frc3238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anacortesrobotics.org\/teams\/frc3238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anacortesrobotics.org\/teams\/frc3238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anacortesrobotics.org\/teams\/frc3238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anacortesrobotics.org\/teams\/frc3238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anacortesrobotics.org\/teams\/frc3238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"https:\/\/anacortesrobotics.org\/teams\/frc3238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anacortesrobotics.org\/teams\/frc3238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anacortesrobotics.org\/teams\/frc3238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anacortesrobotics.org\/teams\/frc3238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anacortesrobotics.org\/teams\/frc3238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}