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Originally Posted by merybar
Two questions, figured i would just link them together even though they have no relevance to eachother.
1. Do any teams only have the resources to dedicate 1 student towards scouting? What do you do? What kind of programs do you use? We would like to develop some tiem of program for a 1 person scout however anybody have any thoughts?
2. A lot of teams have an elastic cord for both dumpers and conveyors, where do you get it from/whats the actual name of it?
Thanks for your help
Matt
Team 894
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1. Any student that is in the stands fills out a form based on each robots performance. We also have a mentor that takes these sheets and reviews them and also watches teams from the stands and rates them on a variety of criteria. The big ones being reliability, scoring, human player, and the amount of penalties they take. He then makes a list for the drive team in order. Your drive team usually has a pretty good idea of who they want on their alliance. We know which teams we work best with and which teams we trip over on the field. As a drive team we go over the list and make corrections based on our experiences. This system has worked extremely well for us in the past and worked for us at Kettering.
2. The Adambots are using the hollow polyurethane shingle belting from McMaster Carr. You can buy little plastic barbs that hold the belts together. We've gotten hours of use in practice and at the Kettering regional with
ZERO failures. I don't suggest Bob Steele's method because that welder will cost you a lot more than the plastic barbs we use and a lot of the teams that weld without the welding tool have belt failures.
If you need more information just PM me.