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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
if your wings are exactly 24 feet wide, then you would have to center your bot perfectly before opening them, which would be impossible
so the wings would have to be a little shorter than the width of the field - meaning there would be small openings at both ends
besides, to deploy said wings, the end of the field would have to be completely clear of balls, or they would keep them from being flush with the walls.
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It's 6 feet across, so only 6 feet wings to block the ball return. But if you do that, you won't make any good friends.
Trust me when I say you can't controll the game, only play it. Sparky 3.0 won the design award at VCU in 2002, but failed horribly in the finals, and didn't even make it to the finals in Champs. It wanted to controll the game. Guess what. I couldn't have. Build a bot that can do one thing and do it well, and stick to it. Then build around that. Sparky 4 was built for 2 things: bin maneuvering & fast autonomous mode. Stacking, throwing bins, and everything else came latter as the pieces feel into place. You must design with the intention of not being a one-man army, but working with partners. Sparky 3.0 didn't work well with others. It failed. Same with all the other ramp blockers from last year. Also, alliance partners pick on strengths and how you complement them, not if you try to dominate the game and they just sit around the theoretically twiddle their thumbs!