[Jeremy Germita]

Originally Posted by Mark Sheridan

wow, that is a cool robot. Your website says you use an ultrasonic sensor for distance measurement. Could you elaborate more on its usage? Is it accurate?

Sorry about that. That was written a few weeks ago when we were playing around with the sensor. We have developed past the need for the ultrasonic sensors after developing some encoder stuff. Ultrasonic sensors are only really accurate if you are within 20 or so degrees of perpendicular to a wall or some other object being measured. It also gives weird readings when the sound hits a porous material such as the balls or bumpers.

Originally Posted by Jacob.B

Great robot and colors, i'm from Truck Town Thunder and we are orange and blue, as well.

Haha. All of our media seem to depict our purple a very dark blue.

Originally Posted by Jacob Paikoff

Great looking robot, it looks like 399 will be a force again this year. I really, really like the dropper and I'm kinda mad I didn't think of it.

Good Luck this year.

Thanks. It seems it is our most versatile system. We've tested it to work as a bump/bridge traversal tool, a wheelie bar, and a mini hopper!

Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle

Great looking robot. I'm curious if the stage spotlight messed up the tracking. The retroreflective material will return any light coming from the camera and from behind/around the camera. It looked like the spot was directly behind the robot shining on the shooting targets. Harsh. Much more difficult than anything I expect to see on a field.

Greg McKaskle

From what I saw from the camera's live feed, the spotlight didn't have much of an effect over our RGB ring on board. We are testing software that dynamically changes the RGB's color and camera HSL thresholds based on target distance or target visibility