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T-Shirt Robot

Drivetrain

  • 8 8" pnematic wheels

  • 4 CIM motors

  • 2 Super Shifter gearboxes

  • Sprockets with #35 chain

  • Can drive on various terrain such as gym floors or football fields

Launcher

  • PVC barrel

  • Sprinkler valve controls airflow

  • T-Shirts are rolled loaded one at a time with ram rod

  • 5 gallon metal air tank

  • fires shirt between 20 and 60 psi

  • can launch over 100 feet

Control System

  • cRIO

  • 2 Jaguar motor controllers for drivetrain 

  • 1 Spike relay for on board compressor

  • Programmed in Java

Summary

The t-shirt robot was created in the offseason between the 2015 and 2016 seasons. It has an air cannon to launch T-shirts for promtional events and demonstrations. Shirts are rolled and bound with either tape or rubber bands and loaded into the barrel with a PVC ram rod. It is controlled with a Logitech XBox controller. 

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