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No bright pink bumpers? :(

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Pretty in pink, eh?

How well does it perform? and how fast is it?

Pavan

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Very nice robot, every year I wait anxious until the moment I can see the pink robot in action.

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After seeing how well Metal in Motion did at VCU with a similar design, having this robot at UCF scares me.

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343 was on the winning alliance in VCU with a very similar design. Problem is, harsher refs might have gotten mad at them for shredding balls (beleived to be the rough polycarb edges of their spiraling ramp). When running their system, it was described to be "snowing" the ball skin! :ahh:
343 also had a turret for their gun.

Any issues with you guys and shredding balls? If not, you guys look to be an awesome competitor once again this year.

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Pink coming out with yet another great looking machine. Hope i can make it to Atlanta to see you guys in action, or atleast hope to see some video of the matches you guys are in.

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Be sure to check SOAP to watch their, and every other teams, matches from this weekend.

Another awesome robot from 233, I'll be sure to come check it out tommorow.

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Nope. Sorry. :rolleyes:

Well we will find out how well it performs tomorrow during practice at UCF. Roccobot 2k6 travels at seven feet per second, and can shoot at a max speed of three balls per second (if the balls are lined up and next to each other).

During testing before we shipped the robot, we did shred a few balls. We had a lot of "sprinkles" and "confetti" inside our robot. We did manage to fix this problem though. :p

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This is my favorite machine and DESIGN.

To this all over again (god help me)
I would make the robot with this spiral design.

Good luck

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Does you camera search for the green light and correct itself to try and stay locked on?

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343 wasn't nearly as bad as another team at VCU. Another team had their robot turned off in one of the practice matches because it was COMPLETELY destroying/shredding/damaging the balls. When the team picked their robot off of the floor, it looked as if it had snowed!

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I was 233's inspector at UCF, and they really had their stuff together. Everything was beautifully done, organized, documented (I think it was about seven or eight pages of diagrams and tables), and laid out so that it could be inspected by both the team and the officials without crouching, squatting, contorting, using a flashlight, or tracing with a finger. I loved it.

(Now, in the interest of fairness, they did have an issue with their flag holder having two screws in it. Then again, proper flag holders on initial inspection were the exception, not the rule, at UCF, so I can't complain too much. ;))


<edit>Now that I think about it, I really should've had that label made up to go alongside the initialed pink dot at UCF. :lol:)</edit>

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yep :) it updates about twice per second, and if for some reason its being weird or if we're in a shoving match, there's a manual override switch and a dial to aim it manually if need be.

At UCF on practice day, the camera was giving me an attitude and didnt want to work, so i had to manually override and aim it myself. Friday and Saturday, the camera worked wonderfully, with only a few tweaks that needed to be worked out. =)

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Hey Pink i just wanted to say that i believe your robot was awesome. UCF was extremely fun for all of us, and competing with you was even better. See you all a nationals :D :)
Kyle
MARS robotics operator