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Re: Strecher may have issues.

Posted by Kyle Fenton at 1/10/2001 8:23 PM EST


Student on team #121, The Islanders, from Middletown High School, Middleton RI and NUWC.


In Reply to: 10 Extra Base Score Points
Posted by Michael Ciavaglia on 1/10/2001 2:59 PM EST:



Mike C.
With the stretcher coupon, you can double your
points. But just suppose that you have 2 robots that
are not operational, or its gyro is messed up, or its
motors are out of alignment. These are all
common problems with robots. Since you have a
4
person alliance, you want to make sure that any
disable robots can do as best of a job as they can.
They can be the bridge changer or maybe put the
big balls up in the score tower.
From first glance, in my opinion, I wouldn't take the
stretcher over the bridge in the first place. If you
watch the kick-off, I saw that the stretcher was too
large and bulkily. Even people who were pushing
had an extremely hard time getting it over. That
would cause a big block-up and really waste time.
If you are pulling it, I see the potential that stretcher
might get cause it to stall right in the middle of the
bridge, since it only has two wheels and it is really
long, if you can get what I am saying. Also if you are
towing, there might have the potential of falling off
the stretcher, and loosing big points in the
process. Also with the stretcher, I could see the
potential of the wheel getting clogged with junk on
the floor, causing the wheel not to rotate right, and
move all over the place. Like a hard to pull grocery
cart. Also it is only made of PVC piping, which
cracks a lot if a lot of stress on the sides.
It would be just be easier for the robots own
wheels to be turning, than this stretcher. You see
this stretcher thing seems a little too easy, and I
think FIRST wanted to overlook this as a sure
guarantee. However, testing it on a field is the only
sure way of how effective it is.



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