1114's Sneak Preview

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by Woolly

They probably do have floor collection, but it's not out of the realm of possibility that they don't.

I think the best thing to do is treat this like one of the GDCs game hints, and given they will be on the field by sometime Friday, just tune in to Greater Toronto's stream.

Heh. No need for me to tune in, I'll be seeing it up close and personal first thing tomorrow morning. I'm field resetting at GTREast.

[Woolly]

Originally Posted by Racer26

Heh. No need for me to tune in, I'll be seeing it up close and personal first thing tomorrow morning. I'm field resetting at GTREast.

Well, that's one way to do it.
Hm... now if only I could convince my school to excuse abscences every Thursday and Friday for the next 6 weeks.


Oh, and as a FIRST student, thank you for volunteering at an event!

[Thad House]

So does this mean that somewhere in Canada there are robots named Face, Hannibal and Murdock?

[JohnSchneider]

Originally Posted by sst.thad

So does this mean that somewhere in Canada there are robots named Face, Hannibal and Murdock?

I think 2056 and 4334 have two of the other 3...

[CalTran]

I see some tanks (Unplumbed by the looks of it). If you look at the 2008 glass panel, you can see what looks like a curvature to their shooter, but then the wheels are at the top corner. ?.? Never before have I wanted so many details. As far as the floor pick up goes, it would make sense if it were in the back right (looking at it head on), but it doesn't quite look like it's a break in the bumpers, but more so that the the "split" we see is just the fact they only have two bumpers.

[Thad House]

Originally Posted by animenerdjohn

I think 2056 and 4334 have two of the other 3...

Because of IRI, I would say 2826 might have been a good 3rd one, but they have another name so that doesn't work.

[joelg236]

Originally Posted by sst.thad

So does this mean that somewhere in Canada there are robots named Face, Hannibal and Murdock?

We're Murdock.

[dodar]

Originally Posted by joelg236

We're Murdock.

So you have the crazy robot that does barrel rolls?

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Racer26

Heh. No need for me to tune in, I'll be seeing it up close and personal first thing tomorrow morning. I'm field resetting at GTREast.

So you're getting us a better picture, right?

[Vince lau]

I'll be there bright and early, yay for being an inspector

[CalTran]

Full specs are posted for anyone wondering.

In other news,

Originally Posted by CalTran

If you look at the 2008 glass panel, you can see what looks like a curvature to their shooter, but then the wheels are at the top corner.

Originally Posted by Simbotics Specs Page

U-shaped sheet metal hopper to minimize human loading and shooting time

I wasn't going crazy at all, there IS a curvature to their shooter/hopper. I'm happy.

[JackN]

Originally Posted by CalTran

Full specs are posted for anyone wondering.

They named a piece of their robot the Flipadelphia...my life is complete

[Jeffy]

Originally Posted by JackN

They named a piece of their robot the Flipadelphia...my life is complete

Loved that too^

In addition to the lack of floor pickup:
They dedicated more power (4 rs550s) to their shooter than their climber (2 cims).
Looks like it should be capable of pyramid shots while climbing.
Hopper under the shooter is different than most bots we have seen so far.

Lots of interesting design decisions and I'm excited to see how they work out.

[GCentola]

Originally Posted by CalTran

I wasn't going crazy at all, there IS a curvature to their shooter/hopper. I'm happy.

I wasn't going crazy at all. There ISN'T a floor pickup.

[Leav]

So, updates/pics from GTR?