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Seconded.

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The game definitely was something that I saw as a challenge more than the robot, especially since it relies on other teams to maximize the score. Our philosophy now is that we make a robot that can win matches on its own, or at least do well on its own in the event that alliance partners' robots don't show up, or do not work on the field. But in this year's game, the curve ball thrown is that we pretty much have to rely on other teams for points.

There are some strategies, however, that use one robot and human players to gain points, so no other robots are required to gain points that may have needed two robots in a strategy, so there's still a good chance of a match win with one robot against two or three.

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Imitation is the best form of flattery.
Take this thread into consideration.

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Team 4004 has a very different method compared to most teams! We would have submitted a video for top 25 however our catapult arm broke and bent in half! With that we spent all day Sunday and part of Monday to rebuild it stronger, improve the launch design overall, and put it all back together. That didn't leave us with enought time, so we hope to use part of our 6 hours to make one, LEDs flashing and all :D with that, we will be introducing Our 2014 robot, Grimlock.




Teaser: All-in-one mechanism. Pickup, shoot, catch. (Well somewhat catch, that's up to our programmers :D )

Re: Robots that are "different"
 

The design of our robot is not that different then most just how we power the shooter is different. We use 6 cims which is connected to the shooter by chain.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPc_...ature=youtu.be

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Ours is pretty different. Should be bringing out the unveil video next week. :cool:

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I'd like to introduce you to Maddox. (Though more of the team is leaning towards calling it Atlas, despite my input.)

All said and done, it performs much better than we expected! (But the math worked out, so why not try, right?) I'm sorry to say we don't have a video of picking up, but there are a few pretty nice shots in there!

In case you were wondering, our pickup is used by two extensions of the shooter mechanism acting as arms on servo control. (Here's a picture of it a bit more put together)

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For me, the issue has always been how well someone does something, not just how creatively they do it. (Though there is definitely something to be said about effective use of unusual strategy.)

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I have seen many new drivetrain designs this year. 148, 118, 624, 3847 , 488 all have many unique drivetrain designs.

With only a single task and no endgame, designs all start to look very similar.
The VRC Toss Up Game has more challenges and wrinkles than the FRC game this year. Ultimate Ascent and Rebound Rumble were two of the best FRC games, Aerial Assist has to still play out, but the design and build season has been a bit underwhelming.

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Aerial Assist is more complex than Rebound Rumble and on par with UA in terms of in game strategy. Though we have been spoiled the last two years.

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Are there any other "different" designs out there? I would like to see something different.[/quote]

We are a the BoltBots Team 5040 and we are a rookie team with little experience . But our team built a wicked awesome goalie see our test
run . Sorry we don't have any slick production video to show off. Just this
video and some photos . The blocker center pole is 1 inch square steel tubing and has chain welded to the face of it . The
standard electrical channel supports the tubing . Extends to 112 inches in seconds . It can take a direct blow from the ball as hard as you can throw it and it deflect the shot . All these teams seem to be shooting great as long
as they have a clear shot at the goal. We may be the most hated team
out there for building such a beast . The ball shooter is a steel hammer that
swings around and hits the ball from the bottom . The ball picker is very simple like a fork lift style that also can be used to aim the ball at different targets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlBo...e_gdata_player

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/39670

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/39671

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/39694

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/39696

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/39665

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/39666

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/39669

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/39668

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This robot is pretty sick.

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I haven't seen many other catapult claws yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H1m34psFw8

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1711 has such a "different" design this year.

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I read through but are some teams (using the kicking style method) worried about their appendage damaging or snagging other robots during its swing for a G28 violation?