[GeeTwo]

3946 will be in the house, with our brand-new trailer (took delivery Thursday; no time to wrap it this year, so it's still white), new uniforms, and unquestionably our best (and simplest) robot to date; a landfill miner with four actuators. We have been able to build and cap a stack of five in 2:15 in driver practice, or make two uncapped stacks of six (in case we have a canner for an alliance partner). We are also able to score yellow totes on the step. Ariana has shot a bunch of video, but I haven't seen any postings yet other than our impressions of the game.

Still tweaking! Our original tote-flipper idea didn't work, but one of our drivers decided to try something silly; push down on one long edge and retreat. After one successful and a bunch of failed attempts, we just added a bit of peel-and-stick foam rubber to the bottom of our flipper on Saturday, and it works like a champ. It also turns out to make an effective brake when we shove it into the carpet; good thing we can't do this while carrying a stack.