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Re: Galileo Division 2013

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Originally Posted by camtunkpa View Post
222 is excited to be in this awesome field of competitors. Glad to see 1218 and 2729 are also in this division representing MAR! Also glad to see we have our friends 125!
We're glad to see our awesome MAR friends, 222 and 1218, in Galileo too. I'm sort of surprised that there's only 3 of us in the division! Our team is very happy and excited to be able to attend Championships this year and to be a part of this awesome division.

A few things about our robot:
  • We use a single-speed 8 wheeled tank drive with versa wheels. We're putting a new set on Thursday morning.
  • We shoot 3 during autonomous from any position at the back of the pyramid.
  • We can shoot to the 3 point goal from just about anywhere on the field. We're most accurate from the back of the pyramid.
  • We are a cycle feeder able to get 4 cycles in depending on the amount of defense we see.
  • Our full court shot is "non-traditional" meaning that we load from our shooter end, spin to face the goals, then shoot.

We were running without a working vision system at the MAR Championships and think we know what the problem was preventing our camera feed from displaying on the Smart Dashboard. We hope to have this system back up and running so that we can shoot "lasers" (Dustin Benedict) across the field more frequently. You may see a few matches online where we had some jams, this was completely fixed prior to the MAR region playoffs.

Here's some video of our matches and the GoPro Camera on our robot - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...KNL4-zpW4oeAyr

Looking forward to next week!

Nate
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Nate Knauss
FRC 2729 Teacher-Drive Coach 2009-?, FTC 4390, FTC 7433

FRC 87 Student 2000-2002 and Mentor 2003-2006, FRC 1647 Mentor 2006-2008, FIRST Senior Mentor 2009-2013

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