
06-02-2015, 21:51
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Technical Director
AKA: Gus Michel II
 FRC #3946 (Tiger Robotics)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Rookie Year: 2013
Location: Slidell, LA
Posts: 3,594
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Re: Flights of Fancy
Name: Fezzik
Game: Ultimate Ascent 2013
Abstract: Nothin' but muscle and heart
Inspiration: The Princess Bride
Description: - Fezzik doesn't bother with those frisbee things. But when you need to climb, he can take three other robots with him. OK, two.
- Fezzik doesn't even have wheels. He sits there for the first two minutes of the match waiting. OK, he lowers two decks and hitches himself to the pyramid.
- Then, when his two alliance partners drive onto the decks he's lowered, he pulls them close, straps them in, and does an outside climb.
- Oh, did I mention that the climb is pneumatically powered from a 10-gallon air tank that's been filling since the end of the last match?
- Anyway, there's enough stored air to raise about 400 pounds of robot 62" off the ground in about ten seconds.
- Bonus:
- The refs freak out when they try to figure out how to get that monstrosity down.
- Then, about 30 seconds after endgame, some capacitors have leaked enough current through their resistors to let some solenoids go into spring return.
- The alliance partners drift slowly to earth, and only Fezzik has to be lifted off of the pyramid.
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