Will you NEED to be able to pick up off the ground?

[RonnieS]

Originally Posted by topgun

Given the date of the build season I would say your team made their choice weeks ago and it didn't include floor pickup. I would recommend making what you have the best there is and don't worry about.

As a thought for the future, are there really any FRC games where you don't want to pick up from the floor?

We left space for it because we wanted to amke sure we had everything else finished first and now we are looking saying, we still have plenty of time. Does a sub group want to work on it further?

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Ronnie314

We left space for it because we wanted to amke sure we had everything else finished first and now we are looking saying, we still have plenty of time. Does a sub group want to work on it further?

Is your robot wired, programmed, shooting accurately and scoring in autonomous mode? If not, you're not actually done. If building a pickup mechanism won't interfere with these other tasks, then go ahead. But I'd recommend you finish those other things first before you tie up the robot adding a pickup mechanism.

[NXTGeek]

I have never seen a shooter game where regional bots have amazing accuracy. In championship eliminations I think that a ground pickup may become less used, but in regionals at least I think that there will always be frisbees on the ground at a given moment.
Of course, everything depends on the joined capabilities of an alliance.

[Boe]

My team initialy decided to go with loader station only, but then decided to make one for auton pickup. Our thought was that you can go to the feeder station and get 4 disks in the same time or faster as you can pick them up.