2011 FLR Robots

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

Looking at the videos of your bot, you'll have a good year.

The very, very interesting thing about this game is that it isn't hard to build a robot to do all the things required of it this year. The hard part is building a robot that does all of those things better than everyone else's robots.

We can floor load. We can feeder-load. We can score on all pegs. We score on the top peg in autonomous (from the straight or the Y). We've got a consistent minibot of at least reasonable speed (though not as fast as we'd like -- and we're working on that!) We're pretty fast, and our driver is absolute nails...

...but we're 9:1 on 6" mecanum, so we can't push (except against all you other mecanum/omni bots out there), and I think we might have drastically underestimated the strength of throwing tubes into your own scoring zone, and thus didn't gear for quite that speed on our manipulator.

1551 aspires to get better every year. We have an almost completely new team this year, what with most of our team graduating last year and being replaced by a greater number of 'rookie' members (of whom I am incredibly proud)...

We'd love to be in the position to be choosing our alliance again this year. But as with all things: we shall see.