How many tetras can your robot stack on the center goal?
 

Title says it all~~~~~~

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5 :D

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I promise to tell you promptly once we have everything integrated properly.

On that note, I would like to point out that the last week of the build phase is always the least fulfilling for me. Everything seems to piece together so easily during the 4th and 5th weeks. This all seems to come to a screaching halt due to a bolt that's too short, or a nut that won't fit where it is supposed to, or a piece that looks really good on paper but not on the bot, or funds running out, or (i could go on for hours), or a chain that doesn't quite have clearance to pass a cross member, or ....

BTW this is not to bash anyone on our team. Our team has worked their collective butts off, but still seem to have thes minute problems that just seem to halt our progress. To any other team in the same situation: You can do it! Just make sure the bot gets finished before you lose you mind.

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Trudat, it happens to everyone. The team just found out tonight that the belts we ordered that we thought were the same are a different batch or something and shred to bits terribly easy. Ditto on the funds and ditto for manpower :P Its all worth it in the end though :D

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I do believe we can stack a good six on the center goal Hahah.. 12 foot, 3 stage elevator.

The awesome part is that when we tip the robot over, and hang the elevator extended horizontally, it only bends down 2 inches. Very uberly stiff.

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I dont know. ;) Come to Purdue to find out.
:D

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We are pretty proud of our mast too. When put it horizontally, it doesn't bend. Sweet. :D

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we wish we could stack like a million, but for now, I have no idea. :]

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i believe we can get at least 4 maybe 5 :]

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We can get only one. Our plan is not to worry about the center goal right now. Of course that may change at tomorrows meeting, but for right now the center goal is just there, but we should be able to stack at least 6-7 on the reguar 5' 1/4" goals.

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Not to give away a lot just yet, we can do 8 with no problem :)

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i dont really know BUT we can go 11 ft tall grabbing it form the top so i am guessing anywhere from 3-6....

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easily 5, probably 6 and maybe 7 or 8. we only built 3 play tetras, lol, so thats just a guesstimation.

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6 is the most we have tried because that is all the tetras we have made, we might be able to get one or two more

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unknown at the moment, can reach over 10ft though... we dont have a center goal to test on.
Car Mack prediction of 3 / robot / match total in qualifier....

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About 5, factoring in the "robot fetching tetra" time.

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we got 10.....but the ceiling got in the way

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last time I was there and saw our robot stack was we stacked about like 10 or 11 maybe more im not too sure.

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3, it was a bonus we got on the top goal, it wasn't our main aim, we just wanted to cap the rest of the goals really well, and we did that too.

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We can go up 14 feet, but we only made two tetras to test with.

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It's not the size, it's how you play the game. We were in a dozen or so practice bouts yesterday and I think the most tetras a 'bot scored in a single match was four. Even with a couple of bots in the practice tournament that could stack 4 or 5 high on the center, I never saw more than 2 in a real match. There was a lot more attention to getting 3-in-a-row on the short goals than in "how high can we go" matches.

In the tournaments, I'm betting if you can cap the center goal three high, you're golden. I can also see some specialists developing. We cap short goals really well, but can't win a pushing match. I think we will spend most of the game in our own end. We can cap three times in less than a minute -- and if we are the 'bot holding the tetra at the start we cap the first time in about 5 seconds. Typical winning scores were 25-30.

By the way, beware of high-centering on the tetra bases. Low clearance bots got hung up several times yesterday.