Re: Unique Designs
 

If I remember correctly they where using Fairlane wheels, looked like 4"x1".

Re: Unique Designs
 

987 was able to get nearly every possible autonomous item and score it, the only exception was that they miss one container so it isn't counted as a container set, but besides that they could score every possible autonomous point if they were alone. There should be some videos on it in dallasfirstvideo.com.

Re: Unique Designs
 

I can't seem to navigate the site well enough to see the videos, but I do wonder how they could get the maximum autonomous points:

Robot Set - 4 points
Container Set - 8 points
Stacked Tote Set - 20 points

Total is 32 points.

Could they get a robot set by themselves? If not, and they don't get the container set as well (you said they didn't), then it's just the standard 20 points from the stacked tote set that we've seen from some other teams.

EDIT: Of course I could just watch the video on TBA. That is a sweet autonomous!!! One robot, two containers, three totes.

Re: Unique Designs
 

I believe they get 2 RCs and all 3 yellow totes and then move into the auto zone. An impressive feat to say the least.

Re: Unique Designs
 

Just learned this weekend: you can get a robot set by yourself if you're the only robot!

Re: Unique Designs
 

Whoa!

And I thought I read through the manual. Must have skimmed over that part... :ahh:

Seems like the rule might apply to the vacuous truth case of 0 robots on the field. Does this mean the maximum score you can get with no robots on an alliance is 44 points? Maybe this has been discussed somewhere else. Not a bad score though!

Re: Unique Designs
 

The Duluth East Daredevils (Team 2512) have a very cool mechanism for autonomous; I'll let you watch it for yourself. They succeeded in doing this almost every match at the Duluth Northern Lights Regional.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Z8eQzYMYY#t=2m12s

Re: Unique Designs
 

thanks for pointing this one out, I don't know how I missed this until now. That is very clever, and very do able by a lot of teams.

Re: Unique Designs
 

Hmm, I thought there might be a way to watch matches individually, I guess not. But yes, a robot set could count if there is only one robot in the field.

Re: Unique Designs
 

Very cool, but how is this any less illegal than 148's Alfred string set?

Re: Unique Designs
 

As an unofficial guess, the argument about Alfred seemed to be more about placement than the string itself. Since it was suspended between multiple tether bots, it spanned the alliance's field and was at approximate walking-into level. I looks like you'd have to try to walk into this setup (unless I can't see all of it), thus making it less of a safety hazard.

Re: Unique Designs
 

This:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...hreadid=135445

I mean how many teams have googly eyes?

Re: Unique Designs
 

Quite a few, apparently.

Re: Unique Designs
 

Perhaps: 148's is black, but 2512's is a bright red-orange.

Re: Unique Designs
 

Ill try and answer these questions a little bit here.

The main difference I see between this and alfred is the string we chose. The students purposely chose the style of string because of the size and color. We could have gone with a much smaller for example mono-filament fishing line, but we found in our testing that the visibility of this was quite dangerous. We then moved on to our current option which is a braided line that is neon orange and easily visible. (even in the webcast)

We were also warned throughly during inspections about the entanglement hazards our system poses. We assured the inspector that with proper coordination with our alliance partners as well as our lengthy testing before bag 'n tag that it would not be a problem.

Our strategy team also brought specific rules and responses from Q&A to help support our design.

Keep an eye out for a full featured reveal/recap video towards Friday (3/6) :D