Man thats a cool design, we thought of doing that, but discarded it. Guess we will see how good it is at Rutgers if you guys come!!

You must weigh all mechanisms at the same time to make weight. You would need reinspected if you were to 'easily swap' for a match. Then it's the inspector's decision to allow the swap. They ask "What did you change" when you reinspect, and if you say "Oh, we took off X mechanism and put on Y" He'll ask for X, set it on your bot, set it all on the scale.

I'm still supporting the flailer, it's an awesome device! Unless you have a robot with some serious pushing power (which I'm sure some of you do), it's going to be hard to get the containers onto the other side of the field. Voila, match is under control after we have attacked the stacks. Now I know there is some room for errors in this strategy but c'mon there is in any strategy. Such as the going under the bar during autonomous mode... what if the bot has already moved out of that area, so you can't hit them or whatever. Anyways, look for us @ Arizona , Virginia, and The Midwest Regional. :)

or maybe not...we actually had to remove the front set of wheels and put on regular wheel chair wheels because we couldn't turn with them both on. can we be pushed? of course but not that easily.

Awww... Leave them on, we'll be happy to remove them for you during the match ;)

sorry...they're gone.

Brilliant strategy!

(I'm smiling, since our strategy is virtually the same as yours.)

By the way, we are going to Arizona also, and our robot is a close relative of yours, namely a big arm up on top. Our arm telescopes out 13+ feet, and retracts by raising up to almost vertical. Here's a thread for our robot.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...&highlight=980

It will be interesting if we are in a match with you folks, either on your side or as competitors.

See you in Arizona.

your pic makes it tough to tell what your bot can do. does it have to be on the ramp to hit boxes or can it hit from starting position? it looks cool tho, whatever it does.


c-ya in phoenix in two and a half weeks

In autonomous mode, we knock over the bins from our starting position using our upper arm, and then we head toward the other side of the ramp to make a stack using our other two arms. However, we may alter our strategy, depending on who we are partnered with, and what the opposition are likely to do.

I have updated our web site with some more info. See
http://home.pacbell.net/pinewood/FIRST_Team_980.html

Looking forward to meeting you and your team in 10 days.

I forgot to wish you good luck in Richmond.

Please let us know how you do (on this thread) if you have time.

Actually I searched the official forum at http://jive.ilearning.com/index.jsp for "weight" and found this post:

EricReed
Posts: 5
Registered: Jan, 2003

Weight of swapable subsystems Posted: Jan 10, 2003 1:29 AM _
Please clarify rules M5 and M6. May we inspect with more than 130 pounds of robot systems, so long as we can demonstrate that less than 130 pounds are actually on the robot in any given match? e.g. our base robot weighs 100 pounds and we have an arm in one match that weighs 29 pounds, and another arm in another match that weighs 29 pounds.
Thanks,
Eric
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first
Posts: 1,496
Registered: Dec, 2002

Re: Weight of swapable subsystems Posted: Jan 10, 2003 8:02 AM _
The total weight of the robot in the starting box at each match shall not exceed 130 pounds. You may build your robot so that it consists of a base unit with multiple subset operating mechanisms. The total weight of your base unit and all your subset mechanisms may exceed 130 pounds. You must present all subset mechanisms at weigh-in. At inspection, each base/subset combination will be weighed to confirm to the FIRST Technician that no combination will exceed 130 pounds. All subsets must be presented at inspection and must pass inspection. Remember, that the total cost of the base and all subset mechanisms cannot exceed the requirements of Robot Rule K3
36F
[Edited by: first on Jan 10, 2003 1:37 PM]

apparantly the teams in practices that have gotten the most boxes at the start have won, and your robot seems to satisfy that condition, so good luck to everyone else getting up the ramp faster than you.