Quote:
|
Originally Posted by dangerousdave
At the VCU Regional, I know team 435, Robodogs, were speed tested at least once. I stood 20 feet away as a tape measure was laid out and their robot was tilted forward at an angle and test fired. There did not appear to be any problems found. I believe it was done on day 2 of competition and the procedure took at least 20 minutes. Their robot design is excellent and a pleasure to watch.  |
Wow, I'm blushing, thanks for the compliment. Our robot was actually tested twice. The first time it was tested while sitting level and we passed the test, but then we were contested a second time because we shoot at a 60 degree angle rather than 30 degrees, so they placed us on a 30 degree slope to fire and we came in about a foot under the maximum distance. It was really more an optical illusion with our robot, because our flywheel maintained the momentum we could rapid fire a continuous stream of balls.