pic: 1251 2013 ROBOT for TBA

[S.P.A.M.er]

Originally Posted by Max Boord

That was a cool joint demo! We will see you guys back there Saturday along with 180 and 179.

Wait what???? None of 180 had heard of this.... pm details please, as I'm the daughter of an FPL employee and neither of us had heard anything.

[MARS_James]

Originally Posted by S.P.A.M.er

Wait what???? None of 180 had heard of this.... pm details please, as I'm the daughter of an FPL employee and neither of us had heard anything.

It is at a different location than last year, I believe it is the West County Energy Center.

[Max Boord]

I was told FPL at several meetings and will clarify tomorrow.

[techtiger1]

So for Gregor and others that have not seen this robot up close. I will be happy to post more pictures soon. The robot as Billfred said was designed with floor loading in mind. The collector on the front is also the storage, sorting and shooting mechanism. This bot also included a ten point hanger. The elevator was to allow us to shoot over what we predicted would be a high amount of robots that would try to block Frisbees. Hence you end up with this design. The collector/shooter really is the coolest part of this robot and I'll post a close up of that soon.

[brennonbrimhall]

Originally Posted by techtiger1

So for Gregor and others that have not seen this robot up close. I will be happy to post more pictures soon. The robot as Billfred said was designed with floor loading in mind. The collector on the front is also the storage, sorting and shooting mechanism. This bot also included a ten point hanger. The elevator was to allow us to shoot over what we predicted would be a high amount of robots that would try to block Frisbees. Hence you end up with this design. The collector/shooter really is the coolest part of this robot and I'll post a close up of that soon.

Did the robot have the ability to be loaded from the feeder station (besides just throwing the discs onto the ground and picking them up)?

[techtiger1]

Yes, it could have been human loaded from the front. We never really did though because of the accuracy required to line it up with the slot due to the nature of the design. How the game played out it took too much time and we were much more valuable cleaning up any missed shots.