Einstein Can-Race Compilation Video

[Chris Hapstack]

I recorded most (twelve) of the can races on Einstein and compiled the clips into a video here. Slow-mo of all clips is also included.

Edit: This is original video shot by me, not from the webcast.

[Kevin Leonard]

This is the coolest thing to come out of this year, byfar.
Fantastic.

[Ichlieberoboter]

That's awesome. And wow, that airplane thing really got out of hand...

[Govind Girish]

Team 118 would keep grabbing the containers at the exact same time as 987 and both would get stuck, but 118 also programmed the robot to let go during autonomous, allowing 987 to grab the containers

[Caleb Sykes]

Originally Posted by Govind Girish

Team 118 would keep grabbing the containers at the exact same time as 987 and both would get stuck, but 118 also programmed the robot to let go during autonomous, allowing 987 to grab the containers

118 did win once when they ripped off one of 987's hooks.

[Chad987]

Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes

118 did win once when they ripped off one of 987's hooks.

Yep. They were designed to have a single ziptie holding them on to avoid larger damage. I believe we started running 2 zipties as a do or die method after that

[Lil' Lavery]

Looks like 1678 won all of their races. However, I don't they matched up against the fastest tier of burglers in any of their races. Curious to see how 1678 would have done against 987/2056/330.

[Electronica1]

Ok, so watch this video muted while playing this in the background. It actually works pretty well.

[Louis_]

Originally Posted by Electronica1

Ok, so watch this video muted while playing this in the background. It actually works pretty well.

+1 edit this into the song.

[trumpthero786]

Thank you for this great video!

[Chris Hapstack]

Thanks, everyone! I figured video was the only way I was going to clearly see the races from the upper deck.

I think 548 embodied the best parts of the whole cheesecakeing trend by continuing to help teams even when their personal interests were no longer at stake. I was definitely hoping for 548 to get to Einstein so we could see a 548 v. 1711 matchup, kind of an ironic master/pupil showdown.

Not getting to see 1114's harpoons in action was unfortunate, and I'm convinced that the burglars 254/973 debuted in the Carson tournament could have beaten anything we saw on Einstein. According to 254, they could snag the cans in 120ms. They were shockingly fast in person.

[JB987]

Just to add to the discussion...
987's bot was programmed to start back driving at .07 seconds and as you can see from the slow-mo our weakness was the flexibility (which we went with to minimize damage) of our arms. We lost some precious time reduction for our claw to the can as a result. Kudos and congratulations to the winning alliance! As so many of us were saying all along...it's about the cans man (mostly )

[RoboChair]

Originally Posted by Chris Hapstack

Thanks, everyone! I figured video was the only way I was going to clearly see the races from the upper deck.

I think 548 embodied the best parts of the whole cheesecakeing trend by continuing to help teams even when their personal interests were no longer at stake. I was definitely hoping for 548 to get to Einstein so we could see a 548 v. 1711 matchup, kind of an ironic master/pupil showdown.

Not getting to see 1114's harpoons in action was unfortunate, and I'm convinced that the burglars 254/973 debuted in the Carson tournament could have beaten anything we saw on Einstein. According to 254, they could snag the cans in 120ms. They were shockingly fast in person.

I would like to mention that our can grabbers were only operating at 80% power the whole event. We could have run as much as 120% power if we really wanted the cans. Our can grabbers really could dial it to 11, but it would be brutal on the driving mechanism and we deemed the wear and tear to not be worth it and turned out to not need it.

[Paul Copioli]

Originally Posted by RoboChair

I would like to mention that our can grabbers were only operating at 80% power the whole event. We could have run as much as 120% power if we really wanted the cans. Our can grabbers really could dial it to 11, but it would be brutal on the driving mechanism and we deemed the wear and tear to not be worth it and turned out to not need it.

No, you can't dial it to 120% power. By definition that is 100% power.

There are students on this forum that may not understand this statement and it completely misleads them.

[RoboChair]

Originally Posted by Paul Copioli

No, you can't dial it to 120% power. By definition that is 100% power.

There are students on this forum that may not understand this statement and it completely misleads them.

There is nothing wrong with my statement. It is exactly like over-volting an electric motor for more power. The motor is designed to take 12 volts(100%) but we run it at 9.6 volts(80%) to reduce strain, but could run it at 14.4 volts(120%) to make it run faster. Yes we can run a system with more than 100% power. We were using surgical tubing and could keep adding more and more past what it was designed for.