Newton 2012!

[ahartnet]

Originally Posted by Bjenks548

Looks like Divisions are out for next week! Quite a few power house teams are here!
(These are just the numbers I recognize)

45, 79, 111, 118, 330, 469, 610, 1023, 1126, 1717, and many more!

where is this information? I'm not finding it on the FIRST website.

[mikemat]

Originally Posted by ahartnet

where is this information? I'm not finding it on the FIRST website.

Here
https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....2012&event=cmp

[Kit Gerhart]

Originally Posted by ahartnet

where is this information? I'm not finding it on the FIRST website.

...or on FRC Spyder. Where are you finding the info??

[Coach Norm]

Originally Posted by Kit Gerhart

...or on FRC Spyder. Where are you finding the info??

You can find the listing on the Regional Events Page:
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/regional-events


Click on Championships - the first link on the events listed.

[Kit Gerhart]

Originally Posted by Coach Norm

You can find the listing on the Regional Events Page:
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/regional-events


Click on Championships - the first link on the events listed.

Thanks. I was looking at the Championship Event page. It's still not there. I never thought to look at the Regional Events page.

[3098 callahan]

This divisions seem like a lot of powerhouse teams are going to be grinding it out to be number 1

[Bjenks548]

With all the long bots in this division, who can hang and how far? Who has a stinger (used in competition)? Finally who has tripled and how many times?

548: Long Robot
Space on Bridge: ~19.5" with bumpers
Stinger: No
Tripled/#? Yes, 7 times

[tylerobot]

Originally Posted by Bjenks548

With all the long bots in this division, who can hang and how far? Who has a stinger (used in competition)? Finally who has tripled and how many times?

548: Long Robot
Space on Bridge: ~19.5" with bumpers
Stinger: No
Tripled/#? Yest, 7 times

Team 1111 is also a long bot that can hang off the end of the bridge to make room for a triple. Our CG is back-biased so with the middle of our center wheel at the edge of the bridge we are balanced. We also have a brake mode.

1111: Long robot
Space on bridge: 24" with bumpers
Stinger: No
Tripled: In our shop, but not yet at competition since we only had 1 regional

See picture:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/37888?

[Grim Tuesday]

639: Wide Robot
Space on Bridge: 24" with bumpers
Stinger: No. But we do have a special balance feature: Super treads. I invite anyone in Newton to come by and feel up our treads, or to a pushing match with any other robot. They are incredibly sticky on both carpet and the bridge.
We have two balance strategies that take advantage of this outlined below:

1. Have both our partners get onto the bridge from either side that is convenient
2. Cross over into barrier into alley so we can be protected from defense (not that we couldn't barrel straight through it if we needed to, but better safe than sorry)
3. Once we reach the end of the bridge, and begin pushing the other two up, we tell them to drive against us so they don't fall off the other edge. We can push the other two robots up the bridge no sweat, and in low gear we have the granularity we need to get the balance.

Option two, we played around with at DC with a stinger enabled team, 1218:

1. Be first one on the bridge.
2. Allow middle robot on
3. Allow stinger robot on to push up the bridge. The combination of low gear and the sticky treads make our robot unable to slip or slide off the bridge like so many others, so we make an ideal endcap.

Tripled: Yes, once, as alliance captain. We would have done it many more times but robot failure not on our part precluded it.

[Rangel(kf7fdb)]

Team 842:

• Long Robot
• Have brakes and treadpads to increase traction on the bridge when hanging off.
• Can hang off a pretty good amount don't know how much room we leave.
• Have a stinger to help with triple balance further if needed. Must be deployed opposite of traditional way due to robot height.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEy596leBjA
• Have not done triple balance in actual match but have done it multiple times while practicing with teams 610 and 4183. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NDBS...mR6bPWnqCezto=

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb)

Team 842:
Have a stinger to help with triple balance further if needed. Must be deployed opposite of traditional way due to robot height.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEy596leBjA

You didn't even bother to edit the giggles off the sound track of that video. Good to see the pressure isn't getting to you guys. Nor is it getting to your stinger deployment according to that video.

[Peyton Yeung]

Originally Posted by Bjenks548

With all the long bots in this division, who can hang and how far? Who has a stinger (used in competition)? Finally who has tripled and how many times?

45 has tripled 3 times in competition and quite a few times in practice. We are a wide base.

[rees2001]

As long as teams are posting videos and pictures about their robots and new features. Here's something we started working on in January and just finally added to our robot. We had to lighten up a few other components to make weight for our “stinger” but it is functional and works well. You can also see that we can cantilever quite a bit of our robot off the edge of the bridge. In the video our 2004 robot is attempting to push our dead off-season robot up the bridge. Then our practice robot finishes the job and deploys the balance assist mechanism. We designed around the possibility of a triple balance and hope to get the chance to use our it at Championship.

[Starke]

Originally Posted by rees2001

As long as teams are posting videos and pictures about their robots and new features. Here's something we started working on in January and just finally added to our robot. We had to lighten up a few other components to make weight for our “stinger” but it is functional and works well. You can also see that we can cantilever quite a bit of our robot off the edge of the bridge. In the video our 2004 robot is attempting to push our dead off-season robot up the bridge. Then our practice robot finishes the job and deploys the balance assist mechanism. We designed around the possibility of a triple balance and hope to get the chance to use our it at Championship.

Nice job with the "stinger" 340! I look forward to seeing it in action!

[stundt1]

Originally Posted by rees2001

As long as teams are posting videos and pictures about their robots and new features. Here's something we started working on in January and just finally added to our robot. We had to lighten up a few other components to make weight for our “stinger” but it is functional and works well. You can also see that we can cantilever quite a bit of our robot off the edge of the bridge. In the video our 2004 robot is attempting to push our dead off-season robot up the bridge. Then our practice robot finishes the job and deploys the balance assist mechanism. We designed around the possibility of a triple balance and hope to get the chance to use our it at Championship.

With this stinger you guys will do very well maybe well see a triple from you guys. I wish you guys had it on during FLR or Buckeye to see it. You guys are going to do well in Newton!