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- Team 834's History of Robots

Kronos - 2008
Jagen - 2007 - Finalist Philadelphia Regional, Champion Ramp Riot
Monstructor - 2006
Nemesis - 2005 - Finalist Philadelphia Regional
Atlas - 2004
JAWS - 2003
Jerry Rigged - 2002 - Xerox Creativity Award

 

- Kronos

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- Jagen

Jagen was designed to compete in the Rack ‘n Roll game. Jagen was built primarily as a ramp style robot, allowing two alliance partners to drive on top to score the 12” bonus scores. A retracting claw designed built on one side of the ramp allow the possibility of utilizing the human loading station and scoring on the rack. Jagen also had a two-stage deployment scheme allowing it to raise one side of its ramp part way enabling the claw mechanism to reach the second row of spiders. Jagen competed in both the New Jersey Regional in Trenton and the Philadelphia regional held at Drexel University. It also competed at several mini-regional events including Wissahickon High Schools Ramp Riot and Monty Madness. As Team 834’s most successful robot ever, Jagen placed second with teams 539, 816, and team 399 at the Drexel regional and won Wissahickon High Schools Ramp Riot along with alliance member’s team 25 and Team 1403.

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- Monstructor

Built for the Aim High game, this robot was designed to be a pure offensive robot, using a mounted softball style shooter and a large self-sorting storage bin. Monstructor's launcher utilizes four spinning wheels to launch the balls. A camera pivots the shooter to find the green light on the upper goal in autonomous, or during a match with the flick of a switch. Once it finds the light, it will automatically release balls from the shooter to score in the upper goal. The shooter provides a backspin on the ball to move it higher in the air. The balls are stored in the large "basket" above the shooter, which held over 20 balls at a time. We were picked by teams 357 and 272 to complete their alliance for the Philadelphia Regional, and made it to the quarterfinals.

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- Nemesis

Nemesis was designed for the triple play game. Nemesis was one of the best robots ever produced by the Southern Lehigh Spartechs. Placing second place at the Drexel Regional along with teams 358 and 293. Nemesis was equipped with two gripping arms for picking up the tetrahedrons and a unique style for which we "slam dunked" the tetra's onto the large field goals. Nemesis combined speed, maneuverability and control into a fully loaded robot. The only remaining parts of Nemesis are its arm assembly and its control board. Nemesis competed in both the New Jersey Regional in Trenton and the Philadelphia regional held at Drexel University. It was also competed at several mini-regional competitions including Wissahickon High Schools Ramp Riot.

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- Atlas

Atlas was the Southern Lehigh Spartechs 2004 competing robot. Riding on four pneumatic tires gave this robot a very bumpy ride. Many pounds over weight this robot was shaved, drilled, and trimmed down, taking up many hours on the hand drills. With an unfolding arm that extended to 9ft. above the playing field, Atlas used a high torque winch and a carabineer style grabbing mechanism, which lifted the robot clear off the floor for bonus points. Atlas also had a 32" gripping arms for the yellow 2X field balls. This robot had it all: speed, efficiency, and did we mention, style. Atlas competed in both the regional at Drexel University and Wissahickon High Schools Ramp Riot.

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- JAWS

This highly innovative robot integrated technical mechanics with simple maneuverability controls. Competing in the 2003 competition, Stack Attack, Team 834 participated in the regional completion in Drexel, PA, as well as the Ramp Riot at Wissahickon High School. Jaws was equipped with two curved grippers with a glass handling suction cup to secure Jaws to the bonus area atop the ramp in the center of the arena. Built with a self made gear box, Jaws suffered from many driveline problems.

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- Jerry Rigged

The first robot designed by Southern Lehigh was entered in the 2002 regional competition at Drexel University and the Ramp Riot at Wissahickon High School. Jerry Rigged won the Xerox Creativity Award for having the most innovative robot design. Equipped with a shopping cart style basket with a latex tubing bottom, Jerry Rigged excelled at picking balls up from the floor. It was also equipped with a pneumatic grabber to grab and pull mobile field goals around the field. Jerry Rigged was an excellent debut robot for Southern Lehigh's rookie year. This started Team 834's successful line of robots to follow.

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