Air Game 2016 - Do you have it?
 

Featured in our Fed-Ex challenge this year was a scenario where our robot was stuck in high gear during testing...we almost landed on 4935's robot on accident. Needless to say we came out of it with a healthy respect for a 6 CIM drive system...next time we will use bumpers!

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

Not that I recommend (and I don't) this sort of robot behavior, but does anyone else have their air game on? Post any videos here of your robot or any other robot getting air for a post season compilation!

This is sure to be an exciting year for drivers given the physics at play here.

Stay safe and above all else do not try this at home!

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Our robot has a growing addiction to wheelies. No air game yet.

Good battery cases are a MUST this year.

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And now this is stuck in my head:

D-d-d-do you have it?

1992?! yeesh, where does the time go? Sad that current students won't know the glory of this kind of exceptional television.

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Seems like this would be an appropriate addition to the FIRST Robotics Competition music rotation.

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Ah, to be a product of the 80's and grow up in the 90's.....

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We made a small jump over the moat :-D
http://imgur.com/gjXU4S2

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Why does that picture look strangely slightly familiar?

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A week ago when we were testing our backup robot, (So that we wouldn't break our main one in testing) our Driver drove over the rock wall, and the robot flipped forward and landed upside down... Now, as some of you may know, that's where a lot of the important electrical things are... So our driver cracked our RoboRio, and it's completely destroyed.

We're never going to let him live that down :)

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Not sure. Where do you think you've seen it?

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Jeez. Let the poor kid live it down he feels terrible. As a driver myself, I take complete responsibility for breaking things and when I do I feel really bad. I would probably hand the team $400 if I broke a rio.

It sounds like the mechanical teams fault for putting no protection on the top of the robot.

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Spoken like a true robot driver! :p

Remember. "A robot can always be fixed but a match can never be replayed."

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Unless there are FMS issues.

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We let our programmers drive (big mistake), and they drove the robot backwards over the moat. We have a mechanism that lifts up, which makes us top heavy when traversing defenses. They caught air and flipped the robot over, breaking the welds on our bumper mounts and bending the shooter. However, because they're programmers they just redid the interpolation tables for our motors as opposed to actually fixing the bent shooter.

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He means the wheels and the position of the robot, same as ours. Did you guys also use the harbor freight tires and slice the rims to make the tires seal to the AM hubs?

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I think you saw it in the old television show called Dukes of Hazard. Here's a pic

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True. But that should never be considered a valid strategic option. :D

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Plus one sir! Dukes of Stronghold.

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You do not understand how much you scared our team with that. I believe half the team was about to have a heart attack from our dreams being crushed. But, thankfully it was not.

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We ended up keeping the HF rims, milling out the bearing hub and having some replacement hubs waterjet cut that uses the bolt pattern of the HF rims and a 1/2" hex hole. One hub on each side of the rims. We're really happy with these tires/hubs, they fit the sweet spot for our drivetrain between the AM tires and some 10" tires we tried.

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http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/42870?

We hit the moat at full speed in high gear, just for fun.

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https://twitter.com/FRC3005/status/699014351399718912

Our preferred method is hitting the defenses fast and going dukes of hazard on them, but proper tire inflation keeps us from catching quite as impressive of air.

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As far as I know (being the programming mentor, and not mechanical :-P ), we used the same hubs that they came with (yes, the same Harbor Freight wheels), but we had to make custom covers to size up to the hex shaft (if that makes sense).

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http://i.giphy.com/JgYZvEAznnlm0.gif


A GIF of the robot jumping over the defense platform and low bar, sans actual bar.

http://i.giphy.com/xT0BKhisZ6zncmfhgQ.gif

Also, not necessarily a jump but probably the most impressive accidental trick we have done. That's what happens when your drivers ride BMX.

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This! This is amazing! Haha!

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I really want to take ours to the skate park. It's so fun to jump this thing off stuff.

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I hope you have a new rio, otherwise good luck, especially if you are competing early.

I wish you good luck either way, but you will especially need it if your roborio does not work...

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Nice Stoppie! Love it!

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We would have had a whole shop working to fix your bot too! Thankfully no robots were injured in the making of our fail.

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Yeah! I didn't think anyone would understand it if the caption was stoppie nose-manual. :)