You read correctly, we can go under the bar .... just not in this configuration. We can easily remove the "chimney" as well as the ramp blocker (not shown in the picture), and go into the match in our "under the bar mode." And if we could turn water into wine, I'm sure Mr. Wooward would be ontop of that
You are correct, we have two drills as the only drive motors. We use two servos to shift gears, and in high gear we are a little over 6.3 feet per second. Fast enough that we had to get Mr. Fahringer to waterjet some heatsinks to save our poor motors
And nope, we can only support 5 crates high with our chimney ... we use every single motor in the kit, so it's not like we could have easily made an elevator mechanism even if we wanted to
(well ... we could have had a passive ratchet-like mechanism I suppose, but 5 high is good enough for us).
And since we didn't get any practice time on the 'bot, I'm afraid we don't have any video to share.
Can't wait to see team 401 in Richmond, especially since I'll be a Hokie next year!
Stephen