Scaling Club

[JohnFogarty]

So this is actually rarer than most people thought it would be this season.

Let's hear/see it which teams out there can scale the tower?

Videos greatly appreciated.

[Landonh12]

No video, but heres a picture: https://i.imgur.com/jNYSDgf.jpg

[g_sawchuk]

It appears that the Scale Club was successfully predicted (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=146157&highlight=10+point+auto).
And next up, we'll have the Challenge Club. :rolleyes:
(Followed by the Robot with Wheels Club, of course)

[JohnFogarty]

No video, but heres a picture: https://i.imgur.com/jNYSDgf.jpg

Lol, it's okay I just watched you scale in a practice match at RC.

It appears that the Scale Club was successfully predicted (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=146157&highlight=10+point+auto).
And next up, we'll have the Challenge Club. :rolleyes:
(Followed by the Robot with Wheels Club, of course)

This happens every year. I just want to see all the different methods teams employed for scaling.

[Caleb Sykes]

This happens every year. I just want to see all the different methods teams employed for scaling.

Exactly, this is part of the reason I make clubs, I also love having an archive of some of the specialty tasks for each game. It's so great to be able to go back and see all the different ways teams managed difficult tasks like 30 point climbs (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114491) and 7 disk autos (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=115182).

I also find it amusing that every year people make goofy clubs, either because they can't get into any other club or because they think clubs are stupid and are trying to satirize them.

[Botwoon]

Not the best picture, but here's Durabot 17 doing her thing. She'll be getting plenty of hangtime this weekend in Ventura :rolleyes:

http://i.imgur.com/Fp58ArI.jpg

[Tuxedolarry]

706 is a proud member of the scaling club! Got our time with our competition robot from line up to fully scaled to just over 6 seconds and we haven't missed an attempted scale on the field yet.

Video of our practice robot...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eINfu3WhM_o

[Caleb Sykes]

5172 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=158&v=FA23LUPDESI)

[jajabinx124]

1114 & 2056 (https://youtu.be/K9-MOZHfZvo?t=140)

148 (https://youtu.be/7oBR4Z7lgPI?t=148)

1678 (https://youtu.be/0_3xAJ2v8t8?t=128) (red robot in the middle of the batter)

876 (https://youtu.be/2_4Ycr5eoXo?t=138)

610 (https://youtu.be/um_ksfPv-2E?t=138)

1736 (https://youtu.be/sq6aapWbJH8?t=137)

[jds2001]

4263 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/5pqae1nfvf1y6su/DSC_1692.JPG?dl=0)

[CalTran]

1986 (http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2016mokc_f1m1)
Picture (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/42977)

[cedwards]

#4980 Has been scaling. The team designed off of a large pneumatic cylinder we picked up in our rookie season. After the first year we never thought we would ever need that kind of hardware and here it is in all its glory!

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img/1e8/1e88462a2d7193e38d750ee0fc811e37_m.jpg

[Boltman]

San Diego QF 1-1 (We did two other scales in SD neither counted, one 2 sec early in last qual the other we scaled and then lowered within the 5 second window for some unknown reason in SF) No scales in CV.

Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF5at9wG0Ug

[jreneew2]

Team 2053 at the Pittsburgh Regional in Qualification Match 73 (and a couple others).

We were on the red alliance.

video. (https://youtu.be/GpHX__IzuTE?t=4m18s)

Hopefully going to scale every match on Long Island!

[Nick.kremer]

Team 3512 @ Ventura yesterday during practice matches.

[Bochek]

We scale every match:

https://youtu.be/yTtG3fCYaiE?t=161

[EmileH]

1058 (https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=968616469887839&substory_index=0&id=100002184840764)

[OccamzRazor]

3506 is one of the four climbers in NC. We scale every time we get the first ranking point/25 points.

[Hadi379]

Almost every match

[falconmaster]

watch the end of the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1IFezbF6Pkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1IFezbF6Pk

[cad321]

2386 scales. We had some issues at palmetto with our climber and are working out the bugs for our time in windsor.

Match footage of us climbing in match 57 (http://www.watchfirstnow.com/archives/157675879) at Palmetto.

[Amit3339]

Team 3339 The BumbleB's could pull that scale at the Israeli Regional at week2. Glad to be a part of this club:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs0u5qxsDAQ

[Brainiac33]

1533 at Asheville, NC District (https://youtu.be/QWpnQ2mJUHA)

[pavong]

team 3990 scaled (almost) every at the Tech Valley Regional!

Video (https://youtu.be/XoLXny181oc?t=2m22s)

and a different angle here (https://youtu.be/kC3SZCpC5S0?t=2m33s)

[Karibou]

341 in week 1 at Hatboro-Horsham (https://youtu.be/RFVj5E28Rao?t=6h36m55s)

You can see it better at the end of the reveal video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw6AFxoPyJw)

[natejo99]

Team 74 scales nearly every match. https://imgur.com/3cSVphO

[BrknArrw]

Team 3604 climbed sucessfully @ FiM Southfield event

https://m.flickr.com/photos/danielernst/25276029600/?xajax=1

Video of the same match as the photo above, 2:10 into video:

http://youtu.be/hSO_coYWmqI

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

3360 scaled in GTRC. We added a second motor on our winch before eliminations, and we we able to scale faster and more often that way!

video (http://www.watchfirstnow.com/archives/157966869)

[jojoguy10]

After much testing at our shop and on practice fields, our team, 2990 Hotwire, can now be a part of this club :-)

https://youtu.be/K8Uean8SFCI?list=PLwES-SbpsnxwXlRM_5P9UAFp_ZPSzWRai&t=132

(Watch at 2:12)

[Wayne Doenges]

FRC Team 1501 T.H.R.U.S.T. can now scale.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/43471

[pHolmgren]

PNW has a scaling club of it's own. Some teams that I've seen scale are 2557, 4450, 1983, 4980, 5803, and 1425. I know that 2522 is working on a climbing, but I have yet to see it work. There is also talk of 1318 and 488 implementing a climber to their robots, but we'll have to see.

Thank you! Here's a picture of the first (maybe only) PNW double scale:
http://i.imgur.com/6BqWvQL.jpg

[theawesome1730]

We scaled at Iowa and will be at champs.

https://youtu.be/Q0Laj-WowSs

[catherineknutso]

Thanks 5172! It brought back great memories from the Northern Lights competition. I'm a mentor with 2987 Rogue Robotics. See you in St Louis!

[jojoguy10]

PNW has a scaling club of it's own. Some teams that I've seen scale are 2557, 4450, 1983, 4980, 5803, and 1425. I know that 2522 is working on a climbing, but I have yet to see it work. There is also talk of 1318 and 488 implementing a climber to their robots, but we'll have to see.

Thank you! Here's a picture of the first (maybe only) PNW double scale:


And 2990 scaled twice at Philomath :-)

[cptopher]

Team 3534 House of Cards
265 scale points in qualifying at FIM Marysville
Marysville District Winners with 5155 Ubly Bearcats and 5926 Moobotics.

[Tmeziere]

3021 added a scaling device at the Utah regional and will be speeding it up for champs.
http://imgur.com/2mMoeDJ
This is one of the more sketchy climbs. If you look close you can see only one of the two hooks is on.

[Beaker]

624 scaled at Rocket City in our Quarterfinal Tiebreaker match!

Here is the video from FIRST in Alabama: https://youtu.be/N0PceiG3-zs?t=2m15s

[Bentorino]

Team 1983: https://youtu.be/6VNDDy7jDgQ?t=2m27s

(Includes the scale of 5803) Last second scale hype hype hype hype: https://youtu.be/4dh4WOb3CFw?t=116 ;)

[pHolmgren]

And 2990 scaled twice at Philomath :-)
I'm sorry! :/ I missed that. Great job!

[sodizzle]

1023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI7YrsPr1_A&index=21&list=PL6fCSvDccI_7lLTLOd7hjuxqJOZ2Co4yd)

[RedRoosterFarm]

MooBotics - FRC Team 5926
165 Scaling Points at Kettering #2
225 Scaling Points at Marysville

Kettering #2 (5926-3707-5203) & Marysville (5155-3534-5926) District Event Winners

[346CADmen]

346 does too

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205725823219025&set=a.10205725826579109.1073741827.1658923440&type=3&theater

[M217]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_CvjkoeYOM

TEAM 118 CLIMB BEST CLIMB!

Ahem. Also 364 and 16 in this match.

But grappling hooks though.

[Ali Ahmed]

Team 4 (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aDUDERQK7GM3V3WVR3VWg1RXM)

[ajlapp]

TEAM 118 CLIMB BEST CLIMB!

Ahem. Also 364 and 16 in this match.

But grappling hooks though.

This match (https://youtu.be/rA_biYE0tMU) has a great close view of the grappler as we hang!

[Arhowk]

we (1684) just got ours working at Lansing, our rookie team (5460) has been consistently climbing since Kettering (sorry too tired to find videos) https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1680345058886438&id=100007328804899&set=rpd.100007328804899&source=49

[Jonathan L.]

1094 won the Creativity award in Central Illinois for our hanging device.

https://youtu.be/ESVDmXIy0zU?t=1m56s

[chandrew]

1410 scaled in every elimination match/when necessary in qualifications at Colorado and inconsistently during Arizona North.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWX2U5jih0U

[Tweekme]

Anthony,

What are you using to shoot your grappler claw up to the pipe? Is it a spring, pneumatic cylinder or combo of the two?

Outstanding engineering effort. Congratulations!

Thank you,

Scott Karlins
Mentor - Team 1261 Robo Lions

[Abhishek R]

624 scaled at Rocket City in our Quarterfinal Tiebreaker match!

Here is the video from FIRST in Alabama: https://youtu.be/N0PceiG3-zs?t=2m15s

Here's a close-up view of 624 scaling. (https://i.gyazo.com/9da2702bb1c4ec577043befbb080b774.gif)

[tiernan12992]

4490 can scale, but we had some complications with our climber that prevented us from climbing this year. However, we were able to.

[CR1305Mascotte]

Were a first year rookie team and we attempted many times at gtr east but finaly hung in North Bay.https://www.facebook.com/CANbotics/photos/a.1022821644406712.1073741829.1011100382245505/1106855356003340/?type=3

[pribusin]

Team 4004, the M.A.R.S. Rovers, achieved consistent tower scales last weekend at West Michigan. Our robot's 'Intellihook' activated the winch automatically as soon as the hook made contact with the bar. It took the guesswork out of our drivers who couldn't always tell if we were hooked properly or not.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/43519

Sorry for the fuzzy picture... video to come soon.

[ajlapp]

What are you using to shoot your grappler claw up to the pipe? Is it a spring, pneumatic cylinder or combo of the two?

It is a steel compression spring. The trigger is a pneumatic cylinder operating a simple over-center lever.

The dart itself has some bearings that ride the surface of the trigger cam to get a repeatable release.

[Arteezy_RL]

Team 4004, the M.A.R.S. Rovers, achieved consistent tower scales last weekend at West Michigan. Our robot's 'Intellihook' activated the winch automatically as soon as the hook made contact with the bar. It took the guesswork out of our drivers who couldn't always tell if we were hooked properly or not.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/43519

Sorry for the fuzzy picture... video to come soon.

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfl1/v/t1.0-9/1919169_1142186989133464_8388153972370755430_n.jpg ?oh=ca907878b56ebf13401e4a788cebdadf&oe=577C785C

Here's us scaling with M.A.R.S Rovers we're team 5980 https://youtu.be/mbhH-Yjif_Y?list=PLcHKOMKIkpp-sjdecuNVZEJfydWWuFUZb

[Tweekme]

It is a steel compression spring. The trigger is a pneumatic cylinder operating a simple over-center lever.

The dart itself has some bearings that ride the surface of the trigger cam to get a repeatable release.

Anthony,

Thank you for the reply! Where did you source the compression spring? We have tried a few different springs and cannot seem to get the distance. Also, some of the stiffer springs are very difficult to compress to set the trigger!

Thank you,

Scott Karlins
Mentor - Team 1261 Robo Lions

[anabelseek1025]

Team 1025 finally got our climber up and running at the Marysville event this past weekend!

[sithmonkey13]

1178

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=193&v=gleIEwh9-nw

[Caitlinnnnn99]

3250 has a climber that was added during the Sacramento Regional. It has a grappling hook that shoots to the rung and the robot climbs using a PTO from the drivetrain. This is all achieved in a matter of seconds.

[ruralrobotics]

We were able to climb in under 5 seconds every round except when our alliance members would bump us off when we were trying to latch on. It was bullet proof and would even climb with only one side hooked.

[grainne]

https://goo.gl/photos/dPA94mU4HA1YGjrU7

811 can climb too!! We climb every match. See us this weekend at the BU District Event

[NathanStro]

As a follow up of 5980's video here is a picture. The other team in the photo was team 4004.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1142187065800123&set=oa.973023702778015&type=3&theater

[Ryan K.]

I saw 1983 climb very reliably during all their matches, but i have seen some teams able to climb but their climber, was built so they couldn't get high enough

[squinlan]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cc4YFmTWIAAlAA3.jpg:large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cee5Q29W8AE2oTM.jpg:large

[Ninjastahr]

How about some robots which climb after the matches end? I haven't seen any yet.

[Bryce2471]

Team 2471 Mean Machine joined the club this weekend!

https://youtu.be/ri74l07qRAA

[Legator91]

Team 67 - HOT

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOY7X1Pt19QsJEDtNzSkSEZp0EUfqivmMW4s6sFdfRPkO IMbC_JZZTDJSLGYS_J3Q/photo/AF1QipOsXZaimg9Bbtkv8YQuty91D79YMt4fkd89TiWx?key=S EMwSTlWZk95NnhUVmE1Z3hkWUVfWjNyZVliS2ZB

[NShep98]

Weeks of refining all for one successful scale: https://t.co/p18V0h8Qqh

Still worth it. I'll edit in a video once they come out.

[falconmaster]

here it ishttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-42KlRIOTLJQ/VwKchfDJtgI/AAAAAAACdbM/euNZsLqrY8kLoVqkobHhLSRK4MZyPsWZwCCo/s720-Ic42/DSC_4698.jpg

[John Leonard]

3770

https://i.imgur.com/91BQCIah.jpg

[indieFan]

Please add 5941 to the list.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=20529&d=1459800983

[Ken5736]

5736

http://youtu.be/gdfB82rSGrM

We made most of our attempted scales at SBPLI

[DanKein]

.ml ihp

[pmcoburn]

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img/51c/51c87819aec7a77504cfee97c49b2768_l.jpg


4930, Electric Mayhem, is in the club. This photo from Tech Valley shows us starting to climb; we have since added a winch to the lead screw, cutting our climb time to a quarter of its original. It worked very reliably for us at Finger Lakes.

[TheStatisticMan]

Team 3674 did it at Oregon City (PNW).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0UpOsCBLb0 2:22. The link should be right.

Tape measures for the win!

[bmammen]

1785 are your bumpers high enough?

http://i.imgur.com/kcYKOsV.jpg

http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/4-05-2016/E_FWGK.gif

Why yes, yes they are.

[PeeDiddy]

Room for two and a half? (center one didnt quite make it :\)

http://i.imgur.com/8K694lL.jpg

[Cam877]

706 is a proud member of the scaling club! Got our time with our competition robot from line up to fully scaled to just over 6 seconds and we haven't missed an attempted scale on the field yet.

Video of our practice robot...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eINfu3WhM_o

That's quite the climb! May I ask how you get the hook up to the bar? What mechanism is that?

[RoseanneKhaleel]

1511 at FLR

Note the "Welcome Leo" sign - Larry and Leann Lewis (lead mentors) had their baby the day before this picture was taken.

Thanks to Mike at 233 for helping us early on in build season with some design problems!

[5830.Jguy]

Here's our rookie team #5830-The Irrational Engineers hanging at the Central Maryland event (finally did it around our last match, after a lot of tweaking)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1GAuWjnBtY

[Kristian Calhoun]

Team 25 scaled in 14 matches at the MAR Bridgewater-Raritan District Event. Here's a good clip: https://youtu.be/rp-92muWDEc

[TedG]

BERT 133 finally got our climber to work consistently at the Pine Tree District this weekend.

[GoodTimesXD]

Here's our team this past weekend at district championships. It took awhile to actually get our scaling arm to work, but it's official: 1099 is part of the scaling club now.

[Richard Wallace]

3620 used our scaling mechanism during our last match at MSC. It was installed late Friday. We played our last two Saturday qualifying matches and our first two octofinals matches without using it. Came up just short in OF2-3 -- it would not have helped at that point since our scaling partner had already lost a drivetrain gearbox, and was stuck in the other courtyard.

Now that it is in the bag, we look forward to practicing with it at CMP. Good to have it, even though we might not use it often.

[hotwheel326]

Team 1250 just joined the club at MSC!

We removed our old scaling system which didn't work. (It was 2 pneumatic tubes with hooks at the ends of them both. The hooks would get rotated and misaligned resulting in a failed scale. The entire process was very slow.)

We prototyped our new system on a wood mock-up of our main robot arm and practice bot chassis, put 140 pounds on it and it lifted like a charm! (Yes it was slightly excessive but the bot does weigh less than 120 lbs)

How it works is the scaling arm sits within the main lifting arm of the robot with a strap connected to it and a winch at the base of the chassis. The main arm raises to a certain degree set after twisting the action button 'Scale Extend', then the scaling arm deploys by releasing a door lock at the end of the robot and swings upward.

The driver has a secondary function to 'bump' the main arm up a few degrees to help latch the yellow hooks onto the rung. Once hooked, the 'Scale Extend' twist button is pressed down and the winch lifts the entire robot up. After the desired height has been reached, the action button for the low bar degree set stops the winch and finishes the scale.

Personally, I stop the lifting motion after 1 brick is showing below the bot giving a clear indication that we have scaled and no damage will occur to the robot.

The entire process from start to finish takes around 8-10 seconds

MSC - Qualification Match 192 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX5a_QLvjJ8)

[adpalonis19]

135 is a proud member of the scaling club! We have an extension off our shooting arm that folds out and up to the bar with a magnetically attached hook. Once the hook is on the bar, the winch pulls us up disconnecting the arm extension from the hook and climbing the tower.
Video for Indiana District Champs: https://youtu.be/vw_UZ7eic0E?t=137

[MrMARVINMan]

Forgot to do this after Smoky Mountains. Here's team 2614 climbing (https://youtu.be/mrtjKih4iwE?t=2m13s) in Qual 53 at the Smoky Mountains Regional.

Full video link (https://youtu.be/mrtjKih4iwE).

[Wayne TenBrink]

1918 also joined this club at MSC. The drivers got better at it as the event progressed. The climb in Q182 is my personal favorite.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fIa98Gj7bc

[CJ_Elliott]

Hey guys! Can we play????
https://youtu.be/_lWuyebLo8Q?t=2m13s

[Caleb Sykes]

4536 joins the club.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts_qoXN4lQc&t=2m14s

[jwfoss]

FRC558 put in work between Hartford and DCMP and is now part of the scaling club while staying low bar capable