pic: FRC488 2012 Robot - Gojira

[Madison]

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[Madison]

I just wanted to shamelessly point out our robot once again and give a bit of information about things that aren't apparent by looking at statistics or watching a webcast. We are competing in the Newton division and excited about playing more with folks we've already competed with this year.

Cool facts:

Even though we look 'long', we take up the same amount of space as a 'wide' robot on the bridge.
We have pneumatic brakes that prevent us from rolling around on a swinging bridge
We've reduced the time between shots to about 2 seconds
We made changes before Seattle to minimize air consumption that allowed us to score far more than we did in Texas.
Lowering bridges is easy. Lowering bridges with balls under them is also pretty easy.
1st seed at Alamo regional (lost to triple balance by only 4 pts. :( )
2nd seed at Seattle Olympic regional (lost to triple balance by only 1 pt. :(((( )
Adding sight to catapult to make aiming before autonomous mode more reliable
Adding capability to offset robot to left or right edge of key for flexibility in autonomous mode
Adding variable delay to auto shot timing that doesn't require a code change


There are some old videos of us on our YouTube Channel -- www.youtube.com/teamxbot

The team is excited and looking forward to playing with a bunch of spectacular teams.