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Originally Posted by Justin Shelley
Very impressive autonomous!! I'm sure 1658 will be extremly competitive at the St. Louis regional this year again. The only thing I worry about is defense breaking your robot. After watching many many matches I beleve that defense is going to be brutal this year and when a robot collides with your robot at 10-15 fps bad things can happen!!
That autonomous though is just epic....EPIC
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we expected this and specifically designed around this. there is only one time we are ever vulnerable to breakage, and that's the moments between putting the roller down to pick up a ball and the time it takes to get the ball in the robot. However due to our agility even the risk during this period can be minimized by the driver since we can rotate on a dime and move at the same time. otherwise we are completely safe from breakage. But you may notice how these things are made. There is nothing that extends outside the profile that can't be replaced within 30s-1minute. In fact we are counting on having to fix everything after every match and we are prepared for just this scenario. since we have two picker uppers anyway we can be risky until one breaks, then just use the other. but even ontop of all of this, almost everything that extends out can break, and we can still play. we may break easily, but just because we break doesn't mean we are out of the game. far from it actually.