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Most Innovative Teams
Who are the most mechanically innovative teams to pass through FRC? What years and what mechanisms?
2010- Winnovation with their brilliant 6 wheel swerve, 67 and 1717's gas spring hanging mechanisms. 2008- Winnovation and Simbotics with their surgical tubing ball launchers (Granted they weren't the only ones) Could you tell I'm a Winnovation fan?:rolleyes: . |
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118 in 08 stands out to me. The waterjet cuts, robonaut v6, coaxial swerve, surgical tubing launcher...quite awesome and quite innovative. There week 3 video goes down as one of the best teasers of all time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAJBC-DDL9w
I'm seeing a surgical tubing trend...:cool: |
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1108- Suction ball control with a catapult. Very cool! 2337- We all know "das boot" '09 1108 (again)- Human fed spiral, with physical switches as indicaters of a pin. 1986- If there empty cell launching strategy had worked better, they would have been unstoppable 525- A shooter that loads like a shotgun round, very cool to watch. '10 The loopers - 469, 125, 2992 And since 1625's hanging mechanism hasn't been mentioned: Gas shock power :) |
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I'm ashamed of myself for not mentioning this in my first post.
1771 in 08 is absolutely the coolest robot ever. |
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2007: I guess i have to jump on the Winnovation bandwagon too, their ramp lifter lifted 2 robots AND themselves off the ground
2008: 1771 had the suckiest robot that year ;-) and it worked! |
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I think 71 making weight in 2007 was pretty innovative in itself, never mind how good they were. Dual 12 inch ramps, effective gripper and a swerve drive. A lot of teams made tradeoffs to get one of those three things and Beatty had all three.
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254/968 in their huge focus on continuous improvement, efficient design (especially in their drivetrain) and efficient manufacturing techniques.
Unconventional isn't necessarily innovation. |
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I really liked 2337's robot this year, I truely thought it was one of a kind :D
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and the mid-season addition of a double-functioning scoring diverter was nice too ;) |
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umm guys...469? EVERY YEAR EVER (okay, done now)
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This year, undoubtedly, 469.
I was irrevocably impressed. |
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2005, the giant tower that could simultaneously stack like 5 or more tetras 2006, their shooter that had the abbility to shoot a coulmn of balls 2007, drawing a blank 2008, They had the side roller collectors that were originally on an arm, and then converted to a luancher (the collectoer was quite different) 2009, Multi-column shooter was pretty original. 2010, What did they do in 2010 again? |
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I think that in '08 1771 was pretty much the most innovative. And they have an award to prove it.
In '09, I really liked 111's machine. There was also another team that had a similar implementation of that design and I simply loved it. In '10, 469 was amazing. I was freaking out when at the bell, the game was tied, and then all of a sudden they score two more goals because of their loop and grabed the win. 67 and 1717 were also pretty impressive with their ability to lift even after the buzzer. |
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Another addition to my Winnovation list - their 2010 lifter was also gas spring powered. These kids are insane.
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