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crab drive maybe?

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Not to put too fine a point on it, but they seem to have made a similar trade offs to another team I'm familiar with (cough, cough, Overclocked, cough cough)

Specifically, large wheel base 3 Wheel Drive with the ability to go in all directions. I haven't seen them in transport configuration but I suppose the right and left wheel modules fold back behind their tower. Am I right or am I crazy?

In any case, it looks like another beautiful robot from a FIRST team with a history of making great robots. Well done.

Cheers,
Joe J.

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Who needs #teamtether when you have...

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They posted a picture of a new cart they designed for this robot, and it had pronounced walls on the side of of the cart. We once designed a robot with an H-drive and one of the first things we found out is that the robot wanted to roll off the cart so we had to add walls to the cart to keep that from happening. So my bet is on something with omni wheels.

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Just watched a practice match.
This machine is incredibly fast at stacking from the landfill.
Also looks like there's a container grabber on the back, if I'm not mistaken.

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Oh my... Just watched one of 1114's practice matches - crazy. They got 2 capped six stacks out of the landfill with plenty of time to kill. If they aren't going to do anything else, I can see them easily getting 3 capped 6 stacks consistently.

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It appeared to me that they put some sort of device near the chute door. It fell down during auto, but I wonder if that was part of their plan for post landfill.

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Video anywhere?

EDIT: Rewound the livestream and got it. Wow, they are quick.

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Did anyone else see that they were rotating the bins upright from the floor. Any ideas how they are doing that?

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http://new.livestream.com/WatchFIRSTNow/events/3839990

Their practice match starts at 44:45 and is very impressive - they score 98 points by themselves in their first match.

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They're up again right now starting any second on the live stream.

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What did I just watch? :ahh:

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1114 just scored 126 points by themselves...

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That was very impressive, I'm currently picking my jaw up off of the ground :eek:

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With a bit more practice, I think they can do 4x 6-stack with container.

They did 3x 6stack, 2 of them with litter, plus a 1tote,1container stack.