What you DON'T what your robot to do!

[Spatel7793]

JESUS! That thing bounced! Also one of the faster 30 pt climbers. What happened after that?

[fb39ca4]

What was creating the magic smoke?

[Debbie]

Originally Posted by Bochek

How bad was the damage?

Originally Posted by Spatel7793

JESUS! That thing bounced! Also one of the faster 30 pt climbers. What happened after that?

We were out 2 matches.. sidecar was fried, wires fried.. so we had to completely rewire it.... then we worked on untwisting and unbending parts.. thanks to the machine shop for getting a weld that broke for us (yes, we had to take our bot to the garage) Worked on the shooter first... got that working and then went to work on our climb again...

The problem.. we don't put our final lock on top level because we have to "manually" remove the bot. We did not have a way to powder coat our practice pyramid. We welded our practice pyramid and these are very flimsy (sorry, but they are, but it is our fault for "overbuilding" our pyramid). So.. we never had this problem on our home field..

Now we are putting our full lock on it, and found a way around the removal. We made a successful 30 point climb. .. Had to fix a stuck dumper... thought we were going for 50 again finally, but something went wrong with our controls and it stopped recognizing our climb controller, (totally unrelated to fall obviously) so we were stuck at 10 point climb.

Tomorrow, we will be trying for 50 points, and hoping to get picked!

By the way.. to all the teams at Detroit today.. BX1023 thanks all of you that stopped by to ask if we needed parts, help, etc.. and to offer your "condolences" for our fall! We greatly appreciated all of the support you showed us! I am so proud of my team for getting it back up the pyramid! We'll see how tomorrow goes!

[Shane 2429]

702 in la 2011 that sucker caught on fire! Luckily they were able to get their pdb flopped before the next match but it was still an awesome sight

[Donut]

That's impressive to come back from that kind of fall at all. Many robots wouldn't score again after that kind of tumble!

[eedoga]

You don't know how scared, depressed, and hopeful this video makes me...Our team is planning on doing something similar. Our original climber idea will not work out, but we are using our withholding allowance to get something working which is pretty similar to what you guys did. I am so scared that our robot is going to fall off the pyramid!

I am hopeful because your team was able to come back after that fall, and because your design is so similar to ours and seams to work! I wish you all the best of luck tomorrow!

Edoga

[Adam Freeman]

Debbie,

I feel so bad for you guys. Climbing is so scary!

We actually just experienced that same situation earlier this week. Our robot looked almost identical in how it fell and how it "flipped" and "bounced" off the tower.

Luckily ours was the practice robot. Frame was twisted and we blew the digital side car. We'll see if anything else happened today.

Good luck! Keep going forward, I'm sure you guys will have everything locked down and ready to go for eliminations

-Adam