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And how good/fast does he do it?
What is your hybrid plan?

BTW, i liked your speed racer :P

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Haha, thanks.

Pops it off pretty quick, and is fairly consistent. Hybrid: Last I knew, the plan was to run a lap, and knock a ball off - maybe two.

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There are a couple of reasons this robot will be really good this year:

1. Beachbot's drivers are always amazing.
2. The fact that the lower arms can corral the ball and the upper arms can pick it up while moving will be incredibly helpful.

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Amazing design and execution guys - I've seen what you've done in the past, and you might have even outclassed yourselves. Awesome robot, hope you do well!

One question (and this was the main problem for a number of robots at week 1 regionals - or maybe just St. Louis), but from the video, it looks like when you hit the overpass with the arm and let go of the trackball with the hand, you're in a position to be "clotheslined". Any ideas on avoiding this?

217 (the ever-powerful ThunderChickens) impressed everyone with their "slam dunks": they (from what I saw) could disengage their arm so that the force from hitting the overpass flipped the arm backwards so they could drive under the overpass safely (a dog gear or something like that was my guess - never got the chance to ask them myself). Probably not much help for you, since it doesn't look like you guys can rotate the arm past vertical to the back, but just a thought. Might want to watch out for that.

Anyway, you guys have a great design (I never would have thought of two arms organized like that) and best of luck to you in your regionals and championship!

[I apologize for the novel here, just a thoughtdump more than anything.]

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Thanks for the compliments.

We've hit the overpass in high gear going as fast as the robot will go, and even though it does close-line, it does not fall over backwards. The wheels still stay on the ground enough to backup the base. If need be, we can hurdle backwards as well.

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I foresee a regional victory this weekend.

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The rugby player video is the best. Playing the Rocky video. Everyone needs to see that, its hilarious. The robot definatly won that battle
Joey

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Ah, cool. Just a thought. Any worries about being bumped by passing robots adding to the tipping? Chances of falling on your back are probably slim, though. Hah, what am I saying? Your robot can withstand a rugby player kick - more than I can say about myself. :D

Good luck, and I'm excited to see you guys in Atlanta!

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Another amazing robot from the guys ( and girls) from Hope Chapel. I'm really looking forward to this weekend.

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We can pick ourselves up from any direction we might fall, using either the herder, the arm, or both.

We still have to qualify for Atlanta (and then fundraise).

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:yikes: WOW! its sooo.. simple yet so efficient see you in la. whats the max fps you guys can do?

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We are doing 6.5fps in low and 15fps in high.

There is most of the information on our robot here, http://team330.org/?q=content/2008-robot-unveiled

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Not to hijack the thread, but I just wanted to make a note here. Although we originally had a dog gear clutch designed in the arm gearbox (good guess haha), we found it was easier to just time a simultaneous release the ball + stop the drive momentarily + start pulling back the arms. I'm sure that after practice 330 will adopt a similar strategy.

Tip coming from someone who did just that at STL - the crowd will looovvve it :) We had people coming up to us all day, "that was soo cool how you picked yourselves up" etc.

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Another awsome bot from THE BEACH BOTS!!!!! From your 2007 Currie Championship partners and IRI partners. Good luck this weekend and the rest of the year. Hope to see you in Atlanta and IRI. Mark

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We get inspiration from a lot of teams, 254, 60, and especially 71 (and probably a bunch more that I'm forgetting).