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Please do not tell us (unless they will join us of course), that Karthik was in awe of another Landfill Tote muncher (and to use language like better than he's ever personally seen, is indeed scary)...Anything possibly faster than 1114's Magical Mystery Machine would scare the pants off the rest of us out here out of wt. and true bot cheesecaking options (we can, but we refuse to take away from what we do have).

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We use the HP Station for 6 high capped stacks...So, actually to know that there are more than a few magical landfill tote munchers and stackers to possibly compliment, is actually a relief.

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watchfirstnow.com has a lot of match video of them. they still had some issues with bin stability but otherwise they were so fast: http://watchfirstnow.com/archives/122867839

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Thanks for the link Michael..I will.

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OMG that video is so depressing... wow stacks everywhere...I though only Dallas did that.

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Matches 57 and 62 are the ones of note. Match 57 shows us stacking 2 stacks of 6 and one of 5 without bins. For match 62 we were able to stack two stacks of 6 with a bin after adding a tab that stopped the bin from sliding forwards, but the bin wasn't pushed far enough back for the tab to snap into place for the first stack, and therefore we lost the bin.

As for eliminations, we were having brownout issues that first match, which led to latency problems which caused us to lose our first stack and almost lose our second stack (after losing the bin on top.... again...).

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368 will be unveiling their robot on the field during Week 5 Hawaii.
Only the driver can prevent their robot from doing 3 capped 6-stacks from the landfill with time to spare.:)
With a smooth running swerve again, it makes being a landfill stacker that much more effective. They drop off stacks sideways like 1114 to cut down on the time to drop off capped stacks.
Being that this is their 1st event, I'm sure whatever bugs they may have will be solved by Saturday afternoon come eliminations.
They also orient cans up and down while driving.

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Thanks for the kind words, Glenn. However, until proven in competition, it's probably best not to raise expectations. We're not as confident as you are, but again, thanks for the kind words.

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From Florida I believe 744 Shark Attack deserves mention in this thread, they work both RC's and totes from the landfill with ease.

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Self-righteous, maybe, but I would like to throw TechFire 225 into this discussion. We're purpose built for the landfill, and in week 3 at Springside-Chestnut hill we consistently made a little over two three-stacks with cans. We also scored 20 in auton a couple times and made the co-op stack. Right now in practice we're making about two six-stacks with cans (or the equivalent in points).

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118 would have had 3 capped stacks of 6 at Sacramento if we had completed our job in the final 2 matches at Sacramento. They have the 2nd best landfill bot out there after watching many webcasts. Our mentors raved about their elevator mechanism.

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Looking forward to seeing your machine at SVR. Maybe we'll team up again. (And if you're bringing a short crew again, please get ahold of us ahead of time to help out.)

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I'd like to shout out to the omni directional internal stackers. The technical capabilities of these robots seem trivial to me when compared to how well these robots compliment any team they are on. A lot of these designs and robots mentioned seem game breaking.

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1519!

1519 has two district event wins and two #1 seeds from mining the landfill every time. It is obvious that they are quite effective at it.

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Due to what I believe was a dead cell, the logs showed that the battery was under 9v for the entire match, that's why the driving was slow and twitchy.