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Unread 09-01-2011, 02:06
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Re: Catapulting minibot

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Originally Posted by ICanCountTo19 View Post
I completely disagree. Autonomous simply means acting independently. It never says intelligently. Who's to say we even need to use the brick. I saw a team, while judging at the state FLL competition this year, who had their robot hit a lever for a large box. The robot never left the base for this program. Within this box was a spring loaded mechanical arm that placed the bone bridge (I think that's what it was called) exactly in the right location every time. Why build a complicated minibot with an FTC kit instead of just a box that fires itself off.
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Not sure I said "intelligently" anywhere. And I believe it would still be a legal minibot without a brick/brain. I just don't think you will get very far without one if you think about the whole problem (e.g. intentionally free-falling back down after you hit the target is probably gonna get you a flag). And if the mini touches the host after it climbs above the deployment line, that would violate <G22>, so you'd have to pull the host out of the way, which means the minibot would slam into the base. Autonomous means "self-control", not "no control"

Last edited by Randy Picolet : 09-01-2011 at 02:10. Reason: typos