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Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2011

Great bot! do you guys only have one driver?
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Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2011

Nice bot, as always, but can you floor load, or are you planning on traversing the whole time? Although from what I've seen your traversing is probably faster than most floor loaders.
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Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2011

As always another efficient, elegant design from The Swampthing crew can't wait to see it in action at Florida in person. Alex 744 be careful about your floor loader comments is all I am going to say =).
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Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2011

Thanks!
Yep, Evan is our senior driver from last year. He's awesome. We set the controls up to try and make it easy for him. He's put in double the practice time than any of our former drivers.

As far as the floor loading, I think if we had to play defense, the main thing we would do is chase/block any tube the floor loaders are after. We did quite well at that in 2007. We shut teams down consistently doing that. However trying to block a bot with a good drive train from traversing the field is near impossible. You can slow them down a bit but not stop them, especially with multiple access points. Plus I was worried about getting the floor loader broken in rough defense. There will be solid great floor loaders, but there will also likely be a defender every match looking for them. And playing keep away with the tubes will be the most effective defense.
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Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2011

here is a video from the practice we did just before crating
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Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2011

I love your robot so much. So simple.

Why are you taking CIMs out of the drivetrain for the arm when you could use the FP + AM Planetary for your arm?
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Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2011

Did they change the rules to allow 5 CIMs???
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Re: pic: 179 Swampthing 2011

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I love your robot so much. So simple.

Why are you taking CIMs out of the drivetrain for the arm when you could use the FP + AM Planetary for your arm?
because you can stall the cim for a century with no Ill effects
stall the FP and the impeller melts

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Did they change the rules to allow 5 CIMs???
look at Swampdude's caption on the picture. we have been over that already

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because you can stall the cim for a century with no Ill effects
stall the FP and the impeller melts
It's hard to stall the FP in that configuration. In an arm, it exerts enough torque to right the robot!
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It's hard to stall the FP in that configuration. In an arm, it exerts enough torque to right the robot!
Mabye it can, but it's a liability we want to avoid completely
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here is a video from the practice we did just before crating
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMecFmFrDS4
Those are cool camera angles... love it.
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