Team 254: World's Fastest Climb Teaser
 

Hello Everyone!

Team 254 will post a video of our robot, Overkill, performing the world's fastest 30 point climb if we reach 2540 likes or 2540 Twitter followers by April 3rd. Like our page on Facebook and follow us on Twitter!

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Exciting can't wait.

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Wow thought 1114 was fast can wait to see the POOFS climber!!!!!

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Adding fuel to the SVR fire. Love it.

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Just wait till people find out that Pink is gonna be doing a 7-discs auto, Full-Court Shooting, dumping 6 discs in the pyramid goal and hanging for 30...oh wait :yikes:



Oh, and all that is in autonomous.

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1000 likes seems like a bit much for 7 days. I feel like the 'carrying capacity' of the population who 'like' FIRST facebooks is nearly maxed out at this point.

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Well its already gone up about 100 likes since this thread was posted.

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Just make it 254 likes and out with it already:D

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I think that by late tonight they will have enough likes.

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There are over 3000 likes on the Robotics Memes page, I'm sure that we can 2540 on 254's page before too long.

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There were about 60 likes in 15 minutes
They are at 1638 so 902 to go
So in about 4 hours there should be 2540 likes

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1,655 at the time I'm writing this. That's a lot of likes still to come.

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1706 likes
834 likes to go

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778 to go

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702 to go

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You know we can all see the number of likes right? :D

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So if I were to make 702 fake accounts...

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Yes.
It is also a good way for the thread to keep getting looked at.
by the way 656 likes to go

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599 likes to go :D

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over 600 likes since the post! aren't you satisfied yet?

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You don't have to make 702 fake accounts, we just need 70 people to make 10 fake accounts :D

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They have more than 1114, I think they should just cave :P

*The last 500 are going to be really hard.

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Just keep sharing and it'll happen soon enough.

- Sunny G.

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538 likes to go

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How about just 2254 like?

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I thought rocket power thrusters were illegal

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I bet it's some sort of tension rigged system to allow them to go up after the buzzer. I heard whispers of this design our west, I suppose someone's ready to deliver.

- Sunny G.

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Yall almost have as many members on your team as my entire grade in school... how do yall find room for so many people? to work and literally, room for them?

and of course, liked! Can't wait to see the video

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7 Vex teams...use of a NASA facility...you get the idea

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We think different out here ;)

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398 likes to go

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Less than 400 likes left, come on guys! Like them on your account, and on your teams facebook page!

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360 likes to go!

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Can't wait to see this video.

314 left to go. It's like Pi.

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292 likes to go

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Or we could simply get them 2010 more followers on Twitter.

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I liked it.
As the original climber appears to be a linear inside climber actuated w/ power take off and pneumatic power, I'm very excited to see what was done to minimize the effect of swinging when climbing.

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Ahh, yes. More software = more weight = less swinging. Why didnt we think of that...:p

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260 likes to go!

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249!

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239 likes to go!

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Facebook album.

Don't know if there is any good quality video of it, but you can get the gist of the climber from the photos.

EDIT: found another really awesome album of pics on facebook, these from Waterloo:
More awesome pics.

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Here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T-tPOdgPxw

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188 likes to go

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WatchFIRSTNow has all of the matches from Canadian events this season. Cross reference with TheBlueAlliance to determine which matches 1114 was in.

http://watchfirstnow.com/archive.php
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/1114

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100 likes to go!

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95 to go... Only had 5 in the last 2 hours :(

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87 to go

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60 to go

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35 to go

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35 to go before we get Rick Rolled? ;)

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don't give them ideas
23 to go

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They reached 2540!

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2540 likes - just in time for frctop25....

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And we have over 2540, now where's our video?

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They posted that they will show it tomorrow due to them needing to put finishing touches

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Releasing tomorrow, I've been f5ing all night for nothing :(

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We didn't anticipate it would take only 27 hours to get so many likes! We're scrambling here now to finish the video. Some of us are still at work, too!

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I wanna see a really fast climb using a pto with a climb like 118s. thatd be cool. or one like 1114, except just by driving.

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We'll be waiting attentively.

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PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE prove me wrong, but something doesnt make me believe that a climb can be shorter than 14 seconds (especially during a match! 1114 did this during a match. Who knows how they fast they could do it in their workshop, with no distractions and controlling it up close)

I hope im wrong, but i feel like this video that is being edited is one big joke, like we see during build season (pile of tools, mess of wires, a drawing, etc.)

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1114 is down to ten seconds: http://watchfirstnow.com/archive3.php?id=62515533

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this was just posted, then deleted
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZX4xvra8TM

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That's...just...wow...

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Poofs do it in 8.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZX4xvra8TM

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...Me and the rest of the people in the room at Buckeye are left speechless. This is absolutely stunning.

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Is it all autonomous? Because I can't tell if there is a gryo being used to know precisely when it can become extend fully... It kinda looks like there is...

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This is not the video we intended to post. Someone decided to post a low quality video from nearly two weeks ago without the approval of the rest of the team.

Currently we are in the middle of producing a high quality video of the robot hanging (substantially faster than this video, I might add) consistent with our standards of releasing professional content. We will post this video shortly.

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It gets faster? This is true overkill

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You might want to remove that other video, the deleted description sends the wrong message.

Edit: The description is gone now, I saw the cached version.

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My jaw just dropped when I saw this post.

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The video was stolen and posted under a Youtube account the team does not have control over.

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Certainly...when I first saw that caption floating around on facebook, I was confused...

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When I click the link in that on Facebook it takes me to the video with no description and different title...I think the only way for that description to "go away" is deleting Facebook posts...

But if it's posted by someone not on the team, then it's irrelevant as long as that message gets out.

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***IF THE OP IS READING THIS***
Please delete that video. It was not in the spirit of FIRST.

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Their NASA facility isn't even that big! 1/3 of the floor space is their 80% size field, and on top of that, 1868 Space Cookies and their 50 members share the facility.

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Jaw drop. That's insane.

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I can't wait to see the actual video, because the "low quality leaked video" is faster and better than anything I have seen so far this season. Total and absolute inspiration from this robot.

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I'm curious to see how good the drivers are at lining up. Our climber was roughly the same width and we ran into the corner gussets on the third level a number of times limiting us to 20 point climbs.

I'm sure they'll be well practiced, but it's a hard gap to hit from across the field, especially when you aren't climbing on the side closest to your drivers.

Looking forward to seeing it in action.

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Its actually not as hard as it looks to line up. We have to have just about the same amount of accuracy as the poofs when lining up to climb. What helps though is that their is a line of black tape in the center of the field. Simply line your robot with the center of the line and you will be good at the top.

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We have finished our official video and will post it at 2:54 PM PDT today. We think you'll find it to be well worth the wait!

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Where did you reduce weight to add your climber? Looks great btw, (even if unprofessional video version as you say).

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We rebuilt our shooter to use 550's instead of mini CIM's and pocketed our 10 point hanger.

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Has that impacted your shooting at all? How have the 550s held up in testing so far?

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The 550s have been fine, no motor related issues yet. We made a few other changes and were able to up our velocity quite a bit.

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Our shooter also runs on 550s and we've also had absolutely 0 issues with them. We made the switch from mini CIMs for weight and sizing purposes and love the decision thus far.

-Brando

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With the output RPM of the Mini CIMs and 550s motors being quite different, how are you handling the differences? Transmissions, sprockets, gears etc.

If I recall from the pictures, Overkill uses belts from the motors to the wheels. Is that correct?

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Agreed. We ran two miniCims at regional 1, and 2 550's at regional 2.

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11 has also switched from Mini CIM to 550s between Palmetto and Mt. Olive. Our operator loves the swap.

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We rolled the dice and tried using MXL (really small) timing belts. The reason was because we could buy a pulley that comes stock with a hole small enough to fit directly onto a 550 shaft. I believe we are running a 12 tooth as the pinion on both of our shooter wheels, and then slightly different size pulleys to give us ~4000RPM and ~7000RPM output on 4 7/8" BB wheels.

We love the setup because of how simple it is. Small pulley on 550, slightly bigger pulley on shooter wheel shaft, timing belt between them, done. It also allowed for us to change wheel speeds down the road if we wanted to tweak something. Just a pulley/belt, or pulley/pulley swap to adjust speed up or down on either wheel.

-Brando

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In the future, ditch those silly belts and go to the promise land of 2mm gt2. It's more or less the same pitch (.079 versus .08"), but is far stronger (as you already know). SDP has a HUGE selection of plastic pulleys that we love for it.

This year's shooter and the last used 2mm. Love it.

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Belts. We were already gearing the mini CIM up quite a bit so it's not much of a change.

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Wait... how our you guys still working on your robot if you're attending more events this year? Either I'm missing something... or...

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Practice bot.

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Ah. That makes more sense.

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dun dun dun....

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Can't wait for the video and its less than an hour away from release.

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4 minutes...

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