[Cash4587]

Here I am, So I was in charge of CAD and design. So we planned to do low goal to damage the stronghold and focus on defenses the entire time throughout Ri3d but we also had CAD completed to add a shooter to show one way of many that could be used to get boulders into the high goal. Our robot measured 23" wide by 34" long with room to expand as needed, I think that gave us 6" to play around with but we never ended up using it. This year I think for many reasons smaller could be better, but who knows big can be great too. The robot ended up being 13.5 inches tall with the ability to go under the low bar in both directions since the approach angle is 13.5*. I think we had to force it a little to go under from courtyard to neutral zone. I highly recommend if you do decide to go with a short bot you do some major sketches to make sure your robot will indeed fit under it before you build something that just barely doesn't fit. Also, Our COG was near the back end of the robot because of where the battery was placed. I think we ended up weighing around 80-90lbs I can't remember we didn't weigh it in it's final configuration.

Lastly, we would have gone with a linear punch to do score in the high goal given more time. We decided not to pursue our high goal design after realizing a) we can damage the castle the same amount by quickly and reliably scoring low b) we wanted to make sure all of our defense mechanisms worked well c) we really didn't have time to build our linear punch.

I will post images soon