234's Arm
 

I'm a member on team 234. I didn't get to go to the Virginia regional due to a jazz band contest, but I did watch the last qualification round and the finals on the webcast. From what I saw our arm did what we wanted it to do. However, we had a little trouble with dampening the pneumatics on the arm when we threw the elbow out. This cause us to have to wait a few seconds to start the rotation. I think that if we wouldhave had our programmer there we could have made our arm even faster. In the finals we hit the wall about the same time as another robot and that robot took a few of the stacks we were going for. We lost the match! The second match we didn't play. I don't know the circumstances of that yet. I will find out on Monday when I go back to school. Maybe at the Arizona Regional we will get our arm working even faster so that no driving robot can get up the ramp at the same time that our arm gets to the boxes.

I can't wait to see any other great arm bots out there. And I can't wait to see what happens when we come up against one. I think our arm can take the forces but I am not sure how well. Our engineers are great!!!!!!!

58 estimated 5 seconds, and we were the first to the stack in every single match we had (about 15 in all), with a couple robots flipping over because they hit the boxes while we were on the other side. I believe we could have shaved a second off, just by not driving back as far in autonomous, anyone who watched us could see we drove back a ways, it worked though, consistantly.