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TechFire 225 joins the 20 point auton in Q4 at MAR Springside-Chestnut Hill!

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Nice. We played with the idea of wall-following wheels, but we actually use a infrared distance sensor + PID to detect how far we are and just glide along the wall without hitting it.

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1678 and 254 are in the club.

Additionally, 1678 went 8 for 8 on 3 tote auto attempts in quals, then proceeded to go 8 for 8 on 2 step RC grab attempts in the last qual match and all through playoffs.

Best part, all of our programmers (including lead) are sophomores or younger. We have some good years ahead :D

-Mike

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I'm curious, was your teaser just two robots grabbing 2 RCs, or is there an alternate 4 RC grabber?

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^^^

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It was a 4 RC grabber. The students spent nearly 7 weeks developing the system. They agreed that we had to scrap it after seeing 3310's 2 RC grabber. 1 second just isn't fast enough.

It is quite an engineering marvel though, I'll post a video of it in action when I get back from Japan.

I'm proud of the students, they built the 2 RC grabber (totally different mechanism) in less than 2 weeks, and it clocks in somewhere around .3 seconds. They're currently iterating on that design right now.

-Mike

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319's approach to 20 point auto


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUGNbhI6f0g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v-sITHYS3Q#t=23

We use the full 14.99 seconds but are tweaking things to get the time down

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TechFire can join the club now! Ran a three tote auton successfully three times at the Springside-Chestnut Hill MAR District Event today.

107 got it in Kokomo

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Team Driven, 1730, accomplished the feat many times during Greater KC yesterday.

Also, to no one's surprise, Team 2056 up in Ontario, can do a 3 tote and 1 RC auto.

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1318 joined the club this morning. They have done it several times at Mt. Vernon already.

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Shout out to Team #246, Overclocked, who worked tirelessly throughout the NE UMass Dartmouth District event to secure entry to the club for #Team20PointAuton -- they completed it successfully at least 6 times on Saturday.

It also has to be the most amazingly incredible 20-point autonomous I've seen -- Rube Goldberg has nothing over 246, Overclocked! You've got to see it to believe it -- I don't have video, but hopefully they can post one for all to see!

When they got the 20-point auto working today it definitely gave us something to worry about in eliminations!

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Team 4613 should have the max auto points down pat as long as they can get their alliance partners to just drive straight into the zone.

What a great single bot auto solution and much more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58SO-kO7Jr8

Watch 1:09~1:24 (the action appears well completed before the 15 second point by the bot), 3 Yellow Tote Stack, 3 RC Set, their 1/3 Robot Set. And all 3 RC's ready to use for stacking/capping stacks too and out of the way off the really usually cramped floor.

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Yes, we are finally in the #Team20PointAuton Club as of the UMass Dartmouth District (example video here)

Even so, oh how I wish we had another 6 hours Unbagging between now a NE District Championships as we are not as consistent as we want to be.

We just had a string of small problems that kept from reaching our full potential to this point (yeah, I know, we've seeded 8th, 5th, & 2nd and reached the finals twice with one blue banner -- but I still feel we have room to grow). Chain loosening & jumping track, PWM wires unplugging, Sensor wires unplugging, Banebot motors dying, and (the crowning glory) an axle breaking some time before our two Finals matches that went undiscovered until we were back in the pits packing up (still not sure how we actually ran at all yet alone made and canned several 5 stacks with a broken axle, literally sheared in two, but we managed it).

In fact, that is our theme for the NE Districts Championships: Get Consistent, Get to St. Louis*.

We've got 4 weeks to get ready for the NE District Championships. We are taking a week off then full speed to get consistent for WPI.

Dr. Joe J.


*I was a real fan of Season One of Heroes "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World"

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Team 233 got their 20 point auto to work on Saturday.