Originally Posted by baumgartensam (Post 1439309)

Our plan is to start our 3d printer right at the beginning of autonomous so that the robot finishes printing with enough time to stack all the yellow totes.

Yes, we are 3d printing all of the ICs as well :)

We use our flux capacitor in a non-traditional manner to speed up the chemical and physical reactions occurring in our robot and 3d printer allowing us to print a robot complete with electronics in under 5 seconds leaving us 10 seconds to stack the yellow totes. We decided it would be too ambitious and unrealistic to stack the gray ones as well

Originally Posted by GeeTwo (Post 1446178)

To my ears, "How do you 3-d print a COTS part?" sounds a lot like "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"

Originally Posted by 1493kd (Post 1455400)

I have been seeing many matches that robots do nothing in auto. We are working on a few options and one we are discussing trying out it using our "arms" to pull 2 grey totes out of the landfill and pull them back onto the scoring platform with our robot backing into the auto zone.

I know this wont get us any points in auto but could set up for fast stacking in telop. Has anyone tried to do this? Is it legal. I search the Q+A and manual and cant find anything saying it isn't.

Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard (Post 1455427)

It's totally legal to start stacking grey totes during autonomous, and I'm honestly surprised no one has done it yet

Originally Posted by nstephenh (Post 1455442)

At palmetto regional I noticed a few teams tell us that they simply don't do autonomous, because they wanted to be aligned with the human player station. Personally, I think all teams should at least move forward in auto.

Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes (Post 1455449)

We are planning to start each match in front of the HP station, and not move into the auto zone. If both of our partners have proven that they can get in the auto zone >90% of the time, we'll consider using our drive forward auto, otherwise it's a waste of time.

Originally Posted by GeeTwo (Post 1455451)

I wouldn't have set the bar that high, but for four points, agreed that if any alliance partners are struggling with this, it's not worth taking the time to drive back to where you want to begin teleop. Unless you or an alliance partner brought game pieces, the auto zone is definitely not it.

Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes (Post 1455454)

The reason I set the bar this high is because the stars have to align perfectly for us to get any points. If both my partners have 90% drive forward auto modes, and we have a 90% drive forward auto mode. Our expected auto score will be 4*(.9)^3 ~= 3 points, and that's assuming our auto modes do not interfere with each other in any way.

Originally Posted by EDesbiens (Post 1439266)

And then, the robot builds ten stacks of grey totes [at the tote chute] and, during the last seven seconds, it deploys a wall to block incoming litters...