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Neither time nor appropriate footage for a fancy reveal, so you only get a few quick youtube links. All videos courtesy of 3847 and 2587 generously hosting a practice field for Houston area teams.

Shooting Far
Shooting Near
Hanging

Yes, we're close an invalid hang. We're shifting the battery on Thursday morning to move the balance point a bit and make things more obvious. Also, our fourth frisbee shoots a little hot as it's not dealing with the drag from the other frisbees. We might put a counter in the firing program to slow down the fourth shot a hair.

Unshown is a video of us shooting from the far corner of the pyramid, which we'll have as an autonomous option, and a vid of us sinking 4 3-pt frisbees while hanging from the near side. I swore we weren't at the right angle or speed for that, but my coach proved me wrong, so now it's a feature.

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Very nice. I'm glad you guys got some good work in during the Week 0 practice this weekend. I'll see you in two weeks at Lone Star.

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Great stuff ! This robot is impressive in person. It shoots consistently from many positions on the field.

It was great to see 57 at a scrimmage, now if we could just get all those other Houston teams to come out of the woodwork !

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I'd settle for getting them to the boot camps and robot builds so we can get them a leg up for Lone Star. Royal High School came by our shop last Saturday and we helped them whip together a reasonably competent shooter in a day. We really need more teams willing to ask for help when they need it.

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As expected, that looks well thought out and well constructed. The competition will be tough at Lone Star.

Sorry to miss the Scrimmage. There were aesthetic reasons :confused:

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If you're claiming your robot wasn't pretty enough for scrimmage, I'd like to point out that 3335 showed up with a practice bot that had a rats nest of pneumatic tubes and reservoirs. I don't think a robot can be too ugly for scrimmage if it's not in flames.

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Anyone else thought this was a post with 57 different videos?

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still wondering why this team doesn't have Heinz for a sponsor and switch from Leopard mascots to a Ketchup bottle every time I see a posting on C.D.

Do like the Leopard tails at competition though.:D

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You and Steve Alaniz should get together and plan a coup. He had the same idea. His team name suggestion was the "Fighting Pickles".

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Fighting Pickles and Crusading Cucumbers have already been taken by top quality FTC teams at Mansfield HS up DFW way. They send a kid out in one of those all green spandex jumpsuits with boxing gloves which is a hoot:D What an alliance of mascots that would be to have team Heinz with the Fighting Pickles:ahh:
Must be past the FRC build window and tournament prep brain creeping in and controlling my thoughts..