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jp1247
11-02-2012, 22:18
Hello people of CD! I do believe team 1247 has made something wonderful! Here is a video of our robot poppin' a wheelie with its two wheeled drive awesomeness... (excused our mentors giggling :D )
http://youtu.be/1NKcdS0Bayg
A slow motion one will be up soon. EDIT: Here you go.
http://youtu.be/aI6NyqCx3UY
dellagd
11-02-2012, 22:20
OK, thats an awesome show "problem solving"


even if it was a PHP code fail
~Cory~
11-02-2012, 22:21
me. gusta.
Andrew Lawrence
11-02-2012, 22:22
Cool video! However, I wouldn't use it in competition. You'll tip over with any other part of your robot tower/shooter on it, and I'd personally hate to see that happen in competition to a team like you.
jp1247
11-02-2012, 22:23
To be honest, our team hasn't done too hot in comps, though we have been selected once by a team, and our robot didn't even work fully!
Andrew Lawrence
11-02-2012, 22:26
To be honest, our team hasn't done too hot in comps, though we have been selected once by a team, and our robot didn't even work fully!

So then be successful this year by not tipping over. You grow with experience. I know for sure you'll have a good season. :)
electron
11-02-2012, 22:54
I think an easy way to avoid this (assuming you want to avoid this during competition ;) ) would simply be to move the battery over the front 2 wheels.

That said, it does make for some funny moments and videos.

Good luck this year!
steve3786
24-03-2012, 23:15
Cool video! However, I wouldn't use it in competition. You'll tip over with any other part of your robot tower/shooter on it, and I'd personally hate to see that happen in competition to a team like you.

My team used wheelies to lower the bridge when our other plan wasn't working out, and we never fell over in competition. We were selected to a team, but lost early on due to problems on another robot.
Ekcrbe
25-03-2012, 12:47
The bumpers generally don't let the robot tip. I saw Team 470 use it successfully at Waterford and Northville.
PayneTrain
25-03-2012, 23:30
Nothing better than using stunt drive (our wheelie-friendly skid drive that does all kinds of fun things) to lift a robot onto the bridge.

16ish pounds of force to lower the bridge, you say? HOW ABOUT AN ENTIRE ROBOT INSTEAD.

I love it mostly because I love that we got to finals with it.
Gray Adams
26-03-2012, 01:52
I tried that once, and I bent our ball pickup pretty baldly. It was only a spare on a practice not, but it hurt my ego a little too.