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jp1247

11-02-2012 22:18

Team 1247 pops a wheelie

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

Re: Team 1247 pops a wheelie

OK, thats an awesome show "problem solving"

even if it was a PHP code fail

~Cory~

11-02-2012 22:21

Re: Team 1247 pops a wheelie

me. gusta.

Andrew Lawrence

11-02-2012 22:22

Re: Team 1247 pops a wheelie

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

Re: Team 1247 pops a wheelie

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

Re: Team 1247 pops a wheelie

Quote:

Originally Posted by jp1247 (Post 1124694)

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

Re: Team 1247 pops a wheelie

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

Re: Team 1247 pops a wheelie

Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256 (Post 1124692)

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

Re: Team 1247 pops a wheelie

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

Re: Team 1247 pops a wheelie

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

Re: Team 1247 pops a wheelie

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.

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