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Originally Posted by coldfusion1279

AWESOME! I personally can't wait for Pittsburgh because it is a smaller regional. In my 7 years of robotics, I personally have never been to a regional with much less than 60 teams. It should be interesting.

If you will entertain a few questions/comments:

1. I am worried about your hook hitting the ball return since the actual hook part is so tall. Can you comment on this?

2. Your undercarriage is low. How well does it traverse the bump? Do you get almost vertical?

3. You have nice distance on your kicks. Do you have an autonomous period to utilize them?

4. I hear your compressor turn on after you kick. What is pneumatically operated?

5. FYI- Our team had an auto aim with the camera. But from a distance, because of lighting, or small adjustments in angle, or just generally how visually busy the arena was, our camera had a tough time aiming exactly at the target. In fact we shot a ball at a ref one match. If you get this to work, we might be interested in checking it out. Would that be alright?

In general, awesome job guys. I would love to come get to know you guys on Friday or Saturday. I will be sure to stop by. Good Luck.

Wow that was quick...

1. I forgot to mention that the hook has been trimmed. It's now a nice small hook that won't touch the ball shoot or cause us to extend above 90".

2. We traverse the bump similar to the 8 wheel non-suspended robots teams have posted video of. We raised the center wheel to help with the transition rather than just running a flat 6wd setup.

3. Thanks! We have untested autonomous modes that we will hopefully tune in during the practice rounds. At a minimum we hope to be able to at least clear the zones we are in and hopefully sink a couple shots in the goal.

4. We use a cylinder to unlatch our gate latch which releases our kicker.

5. Thanks for a heads-up. We don't have a large testing area and we didn't have a whole lot of testing time with the aiming on this robot, but using our 2009 robot as a test base we were tracking the target from across the classroom. I will be sure to talk to our programmers and relay your experiences.

Definitely be sure to stop by our pits and check us out.

Pittsburgh is a great regional. The atmosphere and interaction between the teams has made it our favorite regional. I hope your team will enjoy it!