Quadruple Balance on Bridge

[CompSciGeek]

I would really like to see this. I'm sure it's possible.

[wesbass23]

This would require working with the other alliance. Unless one alliance is ahead by enough that they are willing to do this just for fun, I do not think it will happen at a regional or St. Louis.

However, if you have 4 teams that are all based near each other and feel like hanging out, why not? It would make a cool video.

[mikemat]

Triple balance with 118 hanging off the side? That would make an awesome wallpaper...

[OZ_341]

You would need 67 with 522 and their two twins.

[nikeairmancurry]

Why not five 118 hanging and 179 hanging.. With a regular triple..

[bam-bam]

Why not stack with 1501/2054/701 and two wide bots with both 179 and 118?

7 bots on a bridge!

[Steven Sigley]

Originally Posted by bam-bam

Why not stack with 1501/2054/701 and two wide bots with both 179 and 118?

7 bots on a bridge!

This would be amazing. Though a triple bot stack would be soooo hard to pull off. No offense but I could only see it happening if there was a clone of our bot in the middle of the triple stack (for low CG purposes). And then a very short low CG bot on top.

[Jay1986]

Originally Posted by bam-bam

Why not stack with 1501/2054/701 and two wide bots with both 179 and 118?

7 bots on a bridge!

First of all, if you can even get 7 robots out in a match to play would be impressive. Try to ask the FTA if it can be a 4 vs. 3 match and tell me what they say.

[bam-bam]

Originally Posted by Jay1986

First of all, if you can even get 7 robots out in a match to play would be impressive. Try to ask the FTA if it can be a 4 vs. 3 match and tell me what they say.

One can dream....

[mikemat]

You might run into some weighting problems with 179 hanging off the end...unless you stacked a robot on top of a 1501/2054 style deck at the other end.

[Tetraman]

That's what I call Coopertition. Sounds like a challenge for IRI: 2 bonus qualifying points for each pair of robot balances on the Coopertition Bridge at the end of the match.

[philso]

The teams that do well don't just "meet the specifications", they go above and beyond. At least give it a try on the practice field.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by philso

The teams that do well don't just "meet the specifications", they go above and beyond.

Actually... They do just meet the specifications. However, they set their robot specifications higher than FIRST does.

In the real world, I need to meet or beat specs. But, at the same time, I might be the one setting some of the specs based on what the customer wants. If the customer says, "I want up to three robots on this place" and that place is big enough for three and not four (and barely big enough for three at that), then if I design for 4, 5, or 6 robots, I may be able to meet the customer's specification--but it's not a good solution, because it's outside the customer's needs/wants, and the time I spend engineering that solution can be better spent for other things, like putting as many basketballs as possible into a hoop 10' high, which the customer also wants.

[stundt1]

Im wondering what if you got a couple small robots like the robo wizards robot?

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by EricH

Actually... They do just meet the specifications. However, they set their robot specifications higher than FIRST does.

In the real world, I need to meet or beat specs. But, at the same time, I might be the one setting some of the specs based on what the customer wants. If the customer says, "I want up to three robots on this place" and that place is big enough for three and not four (and barely big enough for three at that), then if I design for 4, 5, or 6 robots, I may be able to meet the customer's specification--but it's not a good solution, because it's outside the customer's needs/wants, and the time I spend engineering that solution can be better spent for other things, like putting as many basketballs as possible into a hoop 10' high, which the customer also wants.

Very well said