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Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack
I always love 179's robots year after year. I was expecting an arm design similar to your 2004 robot, and a speed faster than 2005 swampthing. I must say your hurdler is very effective, and it is excellent your team is able to do driver practice for another week. Have they been able to put the ball up on the overpass yet for 12 points? How long does it take them to do it?
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- Hi Barry,
Yep we've set balls up there, also caught them if pushed off to do the "maintain posession" thing. It basically takes just as long to set it as it does to keep pushing it over. Actually the way its doing it now is not going to be the final method
But this is good training and demonstrates to others what arm hurdling will probably look like. I think we're going to speed this up to get maybe 1 or 2 more hurdles in in a 2 minute period, unencumbered that is....
- I don't have a youtube account, are you still having a problem viewing it?
- right now the wheel is just rolling the ball up and the arm pushes it the rest of the way. Later we will hold the ball at a higher elevation and thump it against the overpass at speed to bounce it over.
- I see that some of those didn't count, which is nice to have a week of drive practice.