2002 Robot Design

[ehfeinberg]

Originally Posted by EricH

60's strategy was simple: drop a tether at the start of the match (I think it was shock-corded segments) and go racing out to grab two goals and drag them into their scoring area. That's when the fun began. They'd lift both goals, increasing their total weight to something like 490 lbs--try breaking traction with that! Then when someone tried to push one of the goals back into the neutral zone, or to their own zone, the merry-go-round started turning. And turning. And turning. For the rest of the match--or until whoever it was got bored and went to bug someone else, like whoever had the third goal. The human players would then let fly, if a robot didn't load the goals first, and try to score a few.

I don't suppose someone has a video, I would love to see that!

Originally Posted by EricH

Now, with a flop-bot, it's normal stance is both vertical (starting configuration) and horizontal (playing configuration). Obviously, bumpers would be required in vertical configuration, as otherwise G01 comes into play (violation of R29). With me so far?

I guess you could still argue that it's 'playing' configuration is not the normal configuration, and thus you would not need bumpers. <sarcasm> Such a shame that FIRST does not want us to 'lawyer' the rules. </sarcasm>