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Originally Posted by jblay
This robot just looks awesome. I noticed the cuts after every attempt to balance with a robot on top of you. Ever do this successfully?
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We were able to balance a couple of times with a robot on top of us and even did a three bot balance twice. It's just one of those things that was really tough to practice and we didn't have the cameras rolling all the time to capture it. Our main problem was our practice bot clearance was about a 1/2" so we were never really able to drive it fully onto our bot, it would always hang up on our "bay doors". Our other tall robot in the video was from 2011 and has a 1" clearance and can easily move onto our bot, but it is non operational, so we had to just push it on. That's why that part of the video cuts directly to it already on the bot. Like Steven said, we really pushed ourselves this season building two bots and detailing out the comp bot. The robot will be competitive even without going for the 3 bot balance. OUr drivers have a bunch of practice time in, going after balls and sending them to the other side of the field as well as shooting baskets. But definitely it was a big goal for us this year to try something pretty crazy, and when the opportunity presents itself to do the piggyback bot balance we will hopefully amaze the crowd.