{"id":60,"date":"2007-09-14T17:42:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T21:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/?p=60"},"modified":"2007-09-14T17:42:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T21:42:59","slug":"test-bot-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Test Bot 4.5"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has come to my attention that I don’t really have any “good” pictures of TB4.5, since my camera died a few days into the build session and the rest was taken using friends’ cameras or the cell phone, which sucks.<\/p>\n

So now that I do have a replacement for the old cam, here are some pics of TB on the best surface I could find in this general vicinity – a bright, patterned carpet. Of course it’s a good photographic background!\n<\/p>\n

\"Front<\/a> \"Rear<\/a><\/p>\n

\nLooking back on my build pics (the reports themselves are lost to history), TB4.5 has so far been my magnum opus<\/em> of design and engineering. The sheer amount of work I did on this bot in about one month is insane. I was pretty much only able to start after the FIRST Robotics<\/a> season ended, which was exactly a month before BBIQ<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

And the best part? It all worked, and the only reason I wasn’t more successful was because I waited too long to order batteries (this doesn’t let Maxamps<\/a> off the hook because they took another week to tell me they had no stock) and ended up having to run on cheese-o-cells which failed mid-tournament.\n<\/p>\n

TB4.5 will be revived and reworked for local tournaments. Look for Test Bot 4.5 Service Pack 1 <\/strong>some time soon!<\/p>\n

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\"BLINKENLIGHTS\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It doesn’t really need that much work – the electrical system is active, minus the arm controller which I borrowed at the tournament. A new lifting arm beam and linkages need to be machined, in addition to a new gear for the drill motor, which has two snapped teeth from all the drumbot punting.\n<\/p>\n

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Bot on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has come to my attention that I don’t really have any “good” pictures of TB4.5, since my camera died a few days into the build session and the rest was taken using friends’ cameras or the cell phone, which sucks. So now that I do have a replacement for the old cam, here are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bots","category-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}