Chief Delphi - WOW factor

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Originally Posted by O'Sancheski (Post 920692)

I know a lot of teams that are trying to accomplish climbing the bump, hanging, scoring, and playing defense. This year is a year that your robot needs to focus on one thing. For example, if you have a robot that can score a lot of balls, then you need to focus on that goal, and not try to accomplish all the tasks. If you try to accomplish all of the tasks then most teams are not going to have a dominating robot. I'm not saying that no team is going to be able to accomplish all of the tasks that FIRST has provided us with this year, I'm just saying that it is going to be difficult.

While I'm a proponent of "one thing well", I think if the integration of a feature is seamless with the rest of the robot, there's no reason not to do it just because you want to do one thing well. Only if it takes away from your higher priority functions is it unadvisable.

For example, say the main function of a robot (say, 2791's) is to kick balls, and to build it you'd run a 6wd. If the addition of 2 more drive wheels gives you rudimentary bump climbing ability, then throw them on!

Since this year there's actually more than one real task, some robots will try and do everything well and turn out to be flexible yet relatively mediocre, which is better in qualification but you suffer in elimination. Specifying is more risky in qualification, but more successful in elimination. Doing everything perfectly without compromise is an ideal I don't see many teams achieving this year.

if we can get it done and running before competition... wow... if we can get a working kicker on there? WOW... snow... ruins everything...

our wow factor is either the wheels or the design on our parts.

if you wanna see the wheels, find the thread "wheel envy".

Ou wow factor is a good solid bot that can preform the tasks that need to be done. Over the years our team used to go for the robot that could do evreything perfict and recently we have switched over to a philosophy of doing somthing that is simple, and doing it well.

The wow factor for us is

okay i've decided our WOW factor was driving it around our school today wireless for the first time... its REALLY fun playing with a robot you built yourselves and drivin it like crazy

Funny we did the same thing, Luckily finding some flaws that are able to be fixed...Hopefully....:p

I named team 2185 robot.....FIRE...HD! The team members have renamed it....THE BEAST!!!!! Look out Waterloo and GTR...LOL.
So just imagine a BEAST playing Soccer....

I think ball control is going to be what sets the best teams apart from others, specifically the ability to pivot with the ball for targeting purposes, or having some way of being able to target and maintain possession

Our wow factor is probably our driving. We have a couple good drivers, and we find that the stock drive train works very well.

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Originally Posted by squirrel (Post 917953)

I hope to be able to say, "WOW, we put a working robot in the crate".

I WAS thinking the same thing - until we crated the bot and it wasn't working yet:ahh:

Now it will be - WOW, you actually got it work!!

As a rookie team this year, I feel like we didn't really get things started until say week 3.5. Even one extra week or starting somewhat closer on-time would have made a huge difference.

Keeping hold of the ball is definitely a problem in this year's game.
Once you kick it, it's likely to bounce around all over the place. Has anyone reliably strafed across the field, keeping legal control over the ball?

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Originally Posted by kamocat (Post 929184)

Suction and a 6 wheel swerve = not a problem. From video i've seen, that is.

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Originally Posted by hillale (Post 929187)

Suction and a 6 wheel swerve = not a problem. From video i've seen, that is.

*Like*

Our wow factor will be all the changes we'll be making to our robot at Trenton next week :rolleyes: ...and at Boston....and before Atlanta.:)

We didn't design the robot to necessarily have one strongest point, but rather to be well rounded. However, I would say that our strongest aspect seems to be our drive system: we can clear the bumps while employing a passive system to handle it as well as maintaining enough traction to be able to play defensively really well.