pic: Lightning Robotics' 2013 robot Orion

[Joe J.]

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[mrnoble]

I have a prediction: robots like this, with few moving parts and a passive 10 point hang, will tear it up on the Friday of regionals while everyone else (minus the elites) are trying to get their mechanisms working. Congrats on a great design! Have a great time competing.

[Squeakypig]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

I have a prediction: robots like this, with few moving parts and a passive 10 point hang, will tear it up on the Friday of regionals while everyone else (minus the elites) are trying to get their mechanisms working. Congrats on a great design! Have a great time competing.

If there is one thing I've learned about Lightning, they are pretty darn consistent right out of the gate year after year. On a side not, this robot will not compete in any regionals this year, only districts

That's a mean Lightning machine you got there, is it a feeder slot shooter? I'll be at Kettering cheering you on (although we won't be competing there).

Best of luck!

[mrnoble]

Originally Posted by Squeakypig

On a side not, this robot will not compete in any regionals this year, only districts

Oops!

[Ryan_Todd]

Originally Posted by Squeakypig

That's a mean Lightning machine you got there, is it a feeder slot shooter?

We do have the capability of sniping from the feeder slot, however we don't anticipate spending too much time on that strategy; once we hit elims, we figure that our shooter's short height may draw too much defense for that.

[Squeakypig]

Originally Posted by Skywalkar

We do have the capability of sniping from the feeder slot, however we don't anticipate spending too much time on that strategy; once we hit elims, we figure that our shooter's short height may draw too much defense for that.

Just remember that defense doesn't only have to play against an offense. A good defense can defend against a good defense.

[MrRiedemanJACC]

Love the design and congrats at Kettering. You have a shifter correct? Did you guys go with the pneumatic or electric? And did you get the vex shifter? Or the andymark one?

[Joe J.]

Thanks MrRiedemanJACC. We have AndyMark Super Shifters using pneumatic shifting.

[MrRiedemanJACC]

Thanks for the information! You could tell it really worked well!


Also, please tell Jay I said hi. I was lucky enough to take the the IED class with him this summer at Eastern Michigan.