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Katie_UPS 21-02-2012 17:23

Re: The Ultimate Game-Breaker Robot: 2012 Edition
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom Ore (Post 1131844)
A picture of the troll-bot may have made it onto our website from Saturday's scrimmage...

For those too lazy to search, but interested enough to see:

Lil' Billy Goat Gruff*

Its the only robot with blue bumpers. :)

*not its actual name

Bill_B 22-02-2012 08:39

Re: The Ultimate Game-Breaker Robot: 2012 Edition
 
And the killer (as if one were needed) is that the ball-returns don't work all that well! :yikes: Having a 'bot that can get under there to fetch a ball or two out might actually have been useful.

Aren_Hill 24-02-2012 01:07

Re: The Ultimate Game-Breaker Robot: 2012 Edition
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto (Post 1131441)
RIP Troll-bot. This looks so cool! Can you give us any other views on how the ball manipulator would have worked?

-Mike

here ya go, this is now a "before" picture

RRLedford 24-02-2012 03:43

Re: The Ultimate Game-Breaker Robot: 2012 Edition
 
Gamebreaker loophole specific designed robots are so vulnerable to having their creative designs and build efforts instantly devoured when a GDC decision turns the loophole into a black hole that swallows up all the good work done.
Dancing too close to the legal/illegal event horizon of the rules does carry some very real risks.

We also opted to be a "third bot on the bridge", while still allowing room for two full size bots to go by us, by seriously overhanging the side of the bridge and balancing with only ~14" of our bots 33" width above the bridge. We can ride the rail without gripping it and tilt bridge down for our two partners to roll right past us and up to the middle. A tight fit but doable. Lots more tuning and practice needed though, so we are building a 2nd practice bot next week.

-Dick Ledford


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