
18-10-2011, 11:56
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Registered User
AKA: Brendan Browne
 FRC #1058 (PVC Pirates)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Rookie Year: 2003
Location: Londonderry, NH
Posts: 3,104
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Re: What won in 2006?
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Originally Posted by gblake
LOL - Well, from what I see in the videos, it appeared that the result was a fortuitous sequence of events that worked beautifully (until the robot was beaten nearly to death by defenders).
The machine filled the goal like a grease gun seconds after auton was over (30 pts); returned to the driver station to be filled with the HP's initial balls and any balls the opposition had managed to score; then poured those into the goal during the combo scoring period(30-40 pts). Every shot counted, balls available to opponents were minimized, and opponents had no time to answer the points scored with the 2nd batch of 10+ scored balls.
The machine also appeared to have two "money shots". Two spots on the floor from which it was perfectly aligned to shoot 10 for 10. In contrast (that year was our rookie team), we poured endless hours into a 2 DOF turret that was "just a bit" less accurate than 10 for 10.  The team had convinced itself that defenders blocking shots would be a big problem. However, in those videos I saw clear evidence that we would have been far better off with a simple shooter and a better drive train. Some matches it took your (Poofs) driver(s) a little patience to get to the spots, but once the robot was in one, they pulled the trigger and for that batch of balls it was all over but the shouting.
Blake
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Blake, are these videos online?
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