One week in, what are you doing?
 

Just curious how everyone is doing with planning their strategy out.

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We'll be doing a full 3-stack autonomous and plan to make 6-stacks from the chute door.

sorry guys

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We're also planning to stack from the HP, but I think we're leaning towards grabbing center cans in auto.

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Have you guys heard of this RAD new strategy called The Noodle Agreement?

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We're having troubles with fuses blowing in our minibot. Anybody know how to handle this?

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Has anyone found a loophole around having to only use those Kop wheels on the regolith?

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Our hybrid mode does 3 lines and knocks off 1 trackball, Trying to sort out the second trackball tonight.

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I'm resting. Building a robot in three days was tough! :rolleyes:

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We'll flop over and grab all 3 goals, then deploy the file card shuffler and win.

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We plan to do a full court shooter and climb to the 2nd level on the pyramid

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Has anyone else had trouble dealing with all of this corn?

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We're trying to put a redirector underneath the ball return so that as soon as a ball enters the field, we roll it right into the goal!

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We were hoping to cap with the vision tetra but our processor doesn't seem strong enough to handle the camera data.

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We're doing a three ball auton ,then in teleop we're inbounding and passing over the truss to our human player, who will pass to our alliance partner who's sitting in front of the low goal waiting to score.

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I'm thinking, I should find a team and put a stop to that!

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When the water leaks in to the control box it is shorting out all sorts of stuff. We are thinking of using tampons to absorb the water....





................with apologies to Team 842

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Wait. Isn't this the forum for the ancient worship of Apollo??? Delphi, right? Right? Hello?

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We get stuck driving in all the corn.

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I was thinking odf using pneumatic tires to float on the water. It'd take quite a few, but it should work. ;)

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We're building a drive train that can go over the 4" bump and an inverted wedge to deal with the teeter totters. Then we are going to shoot balls into the high goal.

(oh wait, that actually works for this game too :) )

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Well, we're going to try to assist the ball down the field, hope the referees don't make mistakes, and launch a ball into the high goal eight times.

And maybe win our regionals? :)

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We're going to focus on building a robot that's as small as possible so we can be a valuable ally for balancing the bridge in teleop

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Handle it? That's how minibots are supposed to work!

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Yeah! Its not a good match unless you have to replace a motor afterwards... Isn't that why everyone had 3 copies of their minibots??

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Trying to get this dang noodle manipulator to work.

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We're working on our intake mechanism, but it keeps destroying our game pieces. Anyone know where to get more floppies?

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Four. It was four. They keep getting smashed by the totes, though.

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We are shooting for potentially scoring 301 points in our first regional. And maybe more?

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We are planning to hang off of the truss to score truss points and avoid defense!

Should get us 10 truss points every 10 seconds

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Wait, like 301 points from all matches combined, or 301 points for a single match? Because 301 points for a single match would be insane for this game.

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You're just not thinking with portals.

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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.

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

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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)

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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.

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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. :)

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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."

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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!

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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.

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

/I'm not kidding.

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gathering all the knights of the round table

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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.

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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:

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First regional, not first match.

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Ok, but seriously...

We've done the analysis and decided what our robot priorities are. This drives mechanism and drivetrain designs.

We've built the field elements.

Teams are working on assembling the kit chassis and prototyping shooters.

Teams are wiring up the control system and learning how to make it go.

Teams are working on various other software challenges and wish lists like integrating a camera and driver station controls.

We are busy!

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Did you guys notice that the counter stops there for you too? I heard something about the servers having to resync and preventing click fraud.