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Originally Posted by XaulZan11
Before everyone scraps thier design and gives 254 the championship trophy, remember, you just saw a 7 second clip of them unloading a hopper full of balls into a stationary goal. How many times during the year do you think they will be able to fill up thier robot and empty it into a stationary goal? Just about as many times Kyle Boller throw the ball from his through the goalpost from 50 yards out in the NFL; impressive but won't win you many games. How well does it load? Does it ever get jammed (for all we know this is the tenth take), is it fast enough to even get close to trailors? Is it good at avoiding other teams from scoring on them? I'm positive the other aspects of this robot is just as impressive, but just remember there probably will be more ways than win.
Anyway, great looking robot as usual.
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All will be answered in due time, but to answer some of your questions:
We doubt goals will ever be stationary, but if they are, we'd love to do what you see in that video to them.
We took this video because we thought the end to 148's video was awesome, and figured we should copy them and try to up the ante a little bit
It loads great, no jamming problems (This was not the tenth take-do this 100 times and that's what you'll get every time).
Has there ever been any question about whether a 254 bot is speedy enough?
To answer some of the earlier questions:
Our hopper is made of 0.0625" polycarb. Thanks to the generosity of Team 148 and Innovation First (We love IFI!) we were able to get the entire hopper punched out of a single sheet of polycarb. We bent it up on our sheet metal break in our lab and riveted/bolted the hopper together/to the super structure frame.