Video: FIRST Team 2481 30 Point Climb Teaser
 

Tonight my team thought we would have a little fun and try out our new GoPro camera!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjifzv5Oago

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Excellent. I'm really looking forward to "robot-reveal" season this year because of the challenges the game presents. Seeing teams post their solutions to the challenge of climbing (human-assisted prototype or not) is really awesome, and congratulations! The speed at which you climbed is also pretty great! Best of luck this season, I can only imagine things will get even more exciting!

Garrick

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Prove it's legit.

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Are those .125" steel hooks? What'd you have designed for the "spring" as they pass over the bar, or is it just deformation of the metal itself? If the sound in the background and my ear is correct, it sounds like you're running this on a pneumatic system - what sized bore and stroke are you using? If I took a guess, based off the math we did, you're using somewhere between a 25-30" stroke, 1.25 - 1.5" bore cylinder to climb. Are the stages human controlled or is the climb largely autonomous?
All in all, great video!

PS - I like the mini pyramid in the background. Good testing ground?

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This is awesome. We have a mini pvc pyramid as well.

Glad to see someone is going up the corner.

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Congratulations on achieving this incredible feat. You just made me all the more fearful of the competition at the Wisconsin Regional this year.

I like how the title on your team website says: "Raising The Bar And Climbing Higher"

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Awesome video.

As another 1732's Strategy Team's mentor said, "this does not surprise me at all." We are expecting another top notch robot from 2481. Hopefully, you guys make the Championship this year.

I'm looking forward to seeing it at Wisconsin!

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I'm curious as to the solution to traversing the corner gussets.

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Wow! This is the first climbing video that I've been impressed with. I really like the spring loaded hooks. Are you using pneumatics or something like a really fast lead screw?

In any case, really cool.

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Ours is very similar, at least I think so. I'll try and have a vid up later this week. We just got our key parts today (after weeks of backorder)


Good luck, can't wait for the reveal to confirm my suspicions. :D

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I've also got my suspicions as to how this works. Let's just say I've seen some similar ideas over the course of the season :) Can't wait to see it in WI.

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Wow! that's awesome

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Its almost scary how choose this system is to ours so if the rest is close, I haves pretty good idea about it...think Dean Kamen. (at least, for our solution he applies)

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Are you focusing on only climbing, or can you score disks as well?

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Absolutely...Phenomenal...Period

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all in time, good sir...all in time.


...and, here's another fun little hint.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqKmHlXoDU8

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Very cool, its one of those ideas that makes you go, "well duh!"

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Also, thanks for the comments, guys!

We're looking forward to seeing everyone at Wisconsin (as well as Crossroads), again, as well. We are sure that it's going to be just as competitive, if not more-so, than ever with the number of great teams competing this year.

Good luck to everybody and we will have a couple follow-up videos potentially planned (time and resource depending) leading up to a bigger reveal closer to bag day.

Couple things to answer some of the questions/comments:
1 - yes, this is a legit climb
2 - yes, those are pneumatics you hear...but that's not all you hear
3 - there is more to our robot than meets the eye...with the video ;)

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So cynical :rolleyes:

Given that this was probably a design mulled over by many, I'm gonna go with legit. Well done!

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What can I say? I'm a guy of proof. :cool: That, and i was hoping questioning the mechanism's legitimacy would lead to another video (which it did, looking at OP's post above). ;)

This is gonna be one awesome reveal. And I feel OP is going to have a lot of fun slowly releasing specific details and watching us go crazy over them trying to figure them out.

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Sounds like what CD does on game hints :)

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I can verify that this climb is legit. You will just have to take the word of a member from another team until they release more.

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Looks great - big fan of corner climbing!

I like how quiet the level to level lifting is.

Best of luck - looking forward to finding out the full details of your creation! And see you at Crossroads! Sure would be nice to be on an alliance together instead of opposing each other ala 2012. :)

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I'm pretty sure that 90% of what their mechanism is can be dictated from what they have shown us already. I feel like the entire thing is pretty obvious but that might just be me.

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Certainly this is not a completely unique idea, but their implementation of it appears to be fantastic.

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Same to you guys! ...and, ditto on the alliance comment. Those elim matches from last year were epic. Congrats again!

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Sounds like springs? If it's similar to our design, you're using them on the hooks, but I'm curious as to whether they might be part of your design elsewhere...

Very cool design-- I hope I get a chance to see it in person (or at least get to watch a few matches with it!).

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Teams please take a lesson from this 2481. This is what a teaser looks like not a metal block with a hole in it.

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I'm excited to see your bot at Crossroads.

It was an absolute crime that the best robot at Wisconsin and QC didn't make it to the championship! Don't worry though, you wont be cursed by Goat luck this year.

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THIS!

Also this video is awesome. Looking forward to seeing the whole bot at Wisconsin.

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It looks familiar... But sounds different (and, uh, more complete...) :)

Well done!

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Hrm.. It almost looks like some implementation of an elevator mech maybe?

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Thanks, Tyler! Virtual bro-fist to you and your team. We're also very much looking forward to seeing what Wave brings to Wisconsin to defend their blue banner from 2012. Best of luck to you guys!

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Looks like Wisconsin's going to be fun.

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Looking forward to seeing you guys, at Crossroads, as well! Don't worry about the Goat luck...we had our fair share of Roboteer luck to add to that equation, as well. Something tells me that factoring those in together probably results in an exponential growth type of relationship. ;)

Hopefully, we can both get over that proverbial hump this year!

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This robot will be awesome to see in person. Our now scrapped climbing design was similar to this so I'll have to stop by in the pits to see how it's all put together.

Wisconsin is going to seem exponentially tougher as more and more release videos come out in the next 2 weeks.