Does anyone else NOT use a long arm to place a tetra on top of the Goal?
 

I'm just curious: All the pictures I'm seeing are of a long arm which is used to place the tetra directly on top of the goal. My team's not doing that (and unfortunatly I don't have any pictures), we are sortof pushing it over the goal so that it falls into place. See you at the Duluth competition!

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we don't. We just have a pvc Pitchfork

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East High School is using a flipper... check out this photo from our scrimmage:

http://rollingthunder.smugmug.com/ga...730/2/16542961

They are the purple one in the center.

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Team 230 has an absolutely sweet flipping mechanism. photos

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Team 1559 is using an arm thats only about 36 inches long. We have an elevator type lifting mechanism. It is made specifically for the autoloading station.

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Cyber Blue uses a lifting mechanism and a rather short arm to put tetras ontop of the goal. :]

See here - http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=35182

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A rookie team that came to our practice, 1688, was a very impressive fast little bot with a flipping mechanism that tossed the tetra into the goal.

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Our teams using a scissor lift instead of an arm..theres piscs here at

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...489#post345489

But i'd sure love to know what you made ur flipper outta 230..looks similar to our scissors

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Team 85 has a short arm and 2 loaders that work just like a candy machine! We will see you at GLR. You can see at picture in the robot showcase.

Take care

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We have a tall bot with a short arm, that helps with the complexity and the weight.

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we have an elevator system and then a turreting arm that can hold two tetras at a time....http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...&quiet=Verbose

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though we do have a very large arm, technically it is simply a lift. All of the three arms are connected via a chain linkage and reduction off of a single van-door motor. This causes the third arm/end effector to stay level with the ground at all times; perfectly and constantly in line with the front of the robot.

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Ours takes tetras from the human player and with one air cylinder flips them on the goal.

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We have a cool accordion kind of thing. It has an angled panel with a flap to hold the tetra on, a cylinder type attachment picks up the tetra, and puts it on the goal. =) It's funky. If you have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about, here's a picture of Moonraker.
:D

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Telescoping units, two of them. I am not a member of the team anymore, but i still follow the team.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ght=tower+1018

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Our arm is gets the tetra about 8' feet high, so its not tall compared to most i've seen. Our claw is passive and tilts the tetra back, making it a lot easier to get high enough to cap the center tetra.

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Our robot, has a 4'10" arm. But the way we grab our tetra gives us extra length. We can match all those high-capping bots except for wildstang :p

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Ours is a telescoping arm that raises and lowers and then it has a finger-like projection that extends outward to put the tetras on the goals.

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We are using a platform lift.

Robot

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we're using scissor jacks to flip ;)

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?p=344368

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Here is Team's 176 bot just before shipping.

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we use a aluminum ladder that is cut and nestes to form sort of a forklift.

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Our team has a scissor lift, that can hold up to 3 tetras on top of it. We are then able to stack tetras onto a goal, by flipping them.

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Very tall Forklift from the bagel Bytes Team 702

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We (1648, Grady Gearbox Gangstaz) are using a flipper which loads three at once. WE got second today and won the rookie all star. We're going to Nationals!

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our robot is also a scissor lift with a short arm. the scissors sit on top of a platform. you might have seen us at the peachtree reagional. to see a pic, check out the team's website and click on "our robot."

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Hey 1611 good to here from you guys again : ). I hope you guys enjoyed the regional as much as we did and I'm looking forward to see you again : ).

bye, Felix

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Felix, thanks for all your help with programming at regionals. couldnt have done it without you. Congratulations on your award. We will definately be back next year. hope to see you there.

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team 294 is using a grabber with 3 talons that pull the tetra into cone sort of thing. then our arm is only 40 inches long with 2 segments that are 20 inches each. it is a lot like our arm last year but just smaller. so far its the only one i've seen like it.

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hey, everyone I'm so late ;)

like to congratz team 801 and their alliances, great showdown at PEachtree regional