So, who has popped their tubes?
 

Based on our prototyping activity, we have noticed that the Ringer tubes included in the kit of parts don't take much interaction to pop. I would predict that there will be a number of deflated tubes during this game.

Anyone else have this same experience?

Re: So, who has popped their tubes?
 

We have only inflated one so far. But having thrown it around and played with it, it seems fairly durable. However we have not used it with metal so a robot could easily smash it or pop it if you arent careful.

Re: So, who has popped their tubes?
 

Some of us were throwing the two tubes we have at our rack to see how difficult it would be to toss a tube onto it (it's hopeless, really), and one of them hit the brace for the light at the top. It's now got some very stylish green duct tape to show off its battle scar.

Re: So, who has popped their tubes?
 

Not sure how we punctured it exactly, but somewhere along in the prototyping our tube has sprung a rather large leak.
It looks like this will be a rather large factor in the games...

Re: So, who has popped their tubes?
 

team 1086 were also trying to throw the tube onto the rack from the controller station(which someone did once!!) and it developed a slow leak.

~Alex~

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Over the wall, too? Our guys were all excited because they could make it once in a while, until I pointed out that there'll be a 6 and a half foot wall in front of them.

Re: So, who has popped their tubes?
 

whell with a person holding their hands above their heads in front of them.

~Alex~

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Thanks for tape, our tube is back to normal. I think it was cut on some metal.

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Somehow both of our tubes have survived, i don't know how really

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One has some battle scars but they aren't from testing.

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All of our tubes are alive and well, but other then use them as chairs we haven't done anything that could possibly damage them.

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After going through lots of testing, both of our tubes are popped. I will not be surprised if most of the tubes at regionals will develop a "slow leak". I am sure there will be hundreds of extra tubes, but it will be hard for the re-setters to find ones that have a leak, and replace them.

Because of that our team is making our manipulator adjustable so that we can account for partially deflated tubes.

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Best thing I can tell yous... debur your edges... maybe add a couple layers of tape to any metal edge that might come in contact with a tube.

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We only inflated one tube so far, so we guarantee that we'll have another until we order some more. ;)

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Not yet but the pop sound is coming!