Re: One week in, what are you doing?
 

You're just not thinking with portals.

Re: One week in, what are you doing?
 

We're going to score 5 point boulders in the goal, cap it off with the 2X doublers, then scale the Tower and fend off all pretenders.

Re: One week in, what are you doing?
 

I'm eating more than ever before! Fast Food and all!
Wait nvm....the title question is different than the poll question. :)

Re: One week in, what are you doing?
 

We decided to participate in Robot in 3 Days, but to make sure we enforce our own cutoff time, we won't open our KoP until exactly 3 days before the midnight after Robot Stop Build Day.

Until then, we are meeting daily to take on the challenge of taste testing every local pizza place in the area and then ranking which ones we'd prefer during those three build days. (Note: Little Caesar's has been voted out... wayyy out)

Re: One week in, what are you doing?
 

I'm slowly dying as I read the long game manual. And I have succeeded in having an IV of mountain dew created for me. I am ready for an all nighter now.

Re: One week in, what are you doing?
 

We're going to score all the purple balls, and then cap the center goal while hanging.*


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*My 2004 Beatty fantasy. :)

Re: One week in, what are you doing?
 

Yes, but it could violate T8: "A Team, as the result of encouragement by a Team not on their ALLIANCE, may not play beneath its ability."

Re: One week in, what are you doing?
 

We are choosing not to listen to the narrator and we shall go right. While we are there we may even look at the employee lounge, just to admire it. It is a room truly worth admiring!

Re: One week in, what are you doing?
 

At the risk of tilting at windmills and putting this thread back on track:

We've moved from strategy to design and begun prototype. As of Thursday, we had built our first (motorless) prototype chassis using larger than 8" wheels. We have a backup chassis design based on multiple ranks of FRC 8" and smaller wheels still working as a plan B. We have selected the general location and operation of our boulder pickup and launcher, which will fit on either of those chassis designs. Tomorrow (Saturday, really one week in), we'll build a powered prototype of plan A to verify defense crossings, and continue maniplulator engineering! If Plan A fails or looks iffy, we'll place orders to prototype Plan B.

Re: One week in, what are you doing?
 

Working on strategy while trying to keep my team out of In School Suspension.

/I'm not kidding.

Re: One week in, what are you doing?
 

gathering all the knights of the round table

Re: One week in, what are you doing?
 

When is FIRST going to release then endgame?

We are trying to figure out how to build wheels that don't get stuck in the sand and build a pole large enough to keep our tether from getting in the way.

We also raided harbor freight for drill motors.

Re: One week in, what are you doing?
 

if that's only from shooting, it's 59 high goal shots and 3 low goal shots. total of 62 shots in 135 seconds in teleop, meaning you score once every 2.18 second... I can only imagine the human player trying to deal with all those boulders to avoid G34 :yikes:

Re: One week in, what are you doing?
 

First regional, not first match.