2014 706 teaser

[Bruceb]

What is 706 up to?

[Christopher149]

Building an addition on the CCTV Headquarters, or creating a The War of the Worlds tripod robot? </sarcasm>

[Tungrus]

Is this a seat for mentor?

[Bruceb]

DANG you are both right LOL

[Bruceb]

A little bit more

[Trey178]

That is a very nice intake/passing mechanism. I can see that welded tripod attached to the back, but I'm still wondering what purpose it serves. I look at that photo and see that the ball can't reach that little frame piece, unless it can grip the ball and flip it over.

Video please?

[Bruceb]

no video yet
not fully assembled

[Beauregard]

It seems a lot of people are going for either El Torro or the roller intake.

[Orion.DeYoe]

That pickup is exactly like something we tossed around early on. We were able to greatly simplify the roller positioning though in subsequent iterations.

[Bruceb]

The front bracket that hold the front roller is fully adjustable so we can determine the best angle for collection. We are using 4 rollers on 2 shafts so we can reach as far as possible and still keep rollers in contact with the ball all the way back to the .... ah scoring mechanism.

[markmcgary]

I suspect that the tripod-shaped element behind the collector will contain a puncher-type shooting mechanism.

What I find difficult to understand is how this entire structure will be contained within the perimeter of the robot at game start? I suppose the structure could be oriented with the collector being raised and tilted 90 degrees to point straight up.