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how many tetras do you think it can hold at once??? or how many has it held???

Looks great!!!

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We can fit 4 tetras from the auto loading stations. The tetra frame is welded aluminum.

And I just realized Matt never stated it. Out team is much larger than those shown. Those are just the crazy amoung us who spent Monday night fine tuning her.

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That looks awesome, the arm looks great, how high dose it go? I love it when teams make bots that start in different positions other then all wheel's/treads touching the ground.

And your team shirts are really cool to.

Good luck this year.

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Just to add what Kate added to what Matt started.
1 - the robot is like HOT's. The kids liked thier robot so much last year they wanted to see if they could rebuild it for this years game. I think they did & then some.

2 - If you look out into the hall to the left you will see the guys from 1405 who spent the entire weekend camped out in our hall. They also pulled an all-nighter to get thier robot in working order. I would really like to thank Guy, one of our mentors (the one in the blue-ish shirt) for giving up his weekend to work with them & skipping work on Tuesday to help them out.

3 - I would also like to thank Kate for spending the night with our team & helping our kids finish. She also skipped work Tuesday to help out. While I'm at it, I would like to thank Matt for spend so much time with us helping to mentor the programming guys. He had a final exam on Tuesday and was there most of the night Monday & as soon as his test wast over Tuesday. Oh yeah & thanks to the moms who brought us food & kept up going all those long hours.

I could do this all day so, Thanks to all who helped my kids build something they can all be proud of.

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Per Team Update 13:

For you to be in an autoloading zone, some part of the robot from the original 28"x38" footprint must be touching it. However, that part of your footprint, I assume, is quite far back because you fall over at the beginning of the match. Does this pose any problems?

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According to that ruling, yes it does. I doubt FIRST had thought of our case when they made that ruling so we're betting that they'll let us get away with out base being the other parts of our robot. It will be very clear that our robot is in the loading zone when it is so we didn't feel there'd be a problem.

Matt

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i think that rule is meant for keeping people from having arm that hang down and touch the oading zone while grabbing a tetra. in this case, i hope there aren't problems.

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whats the details for your drives for this year?

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You're awfully inquisitive for someone that doesn't show full pictures of your own robot!

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haha, i was going to show a video of our robot but we rejected by the mentors...

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What's with all the secrecy? It's not like anyone is going to steal your design now.

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they can get a strategy on how to defend us.

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Yeah, but wouldn't teams figure that out on Thursday? :confused:

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That looks almost exactly like what I envisioned.

Once a GRR always a GRR?

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Looks amazing... very elegant design.

Have you had any issues with the tetras sliding down the arm when the arm is raised at an angle? Or is there a way that they are held in place?
Out of curiousity, what motors are you using to control the arm joint angles?
And I am also wondering... what is your drive train setup? I see that it is 4wd, but not much else.
And the telescoping... how is that done? (I think I am seeing telescoping sections on the secondary arm)

Hopefully I will be able to see this in action.
Great job!!