FTC 2015 Challenge "Cascade Effect"

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It's funny they called it Cascade, since that usually refers to water. Haha. Water game joke.

Originally Posted by BBray_T1296

Though I have never been a part of FTC, here is what I see being a really competitive robot

On the back of the robot is a latch for grabbing onto the 90cm goal, never letting go, so the goal becomes a trailer being rigidly towed for the remainder of the match.

The robot has a continuous intake/lifting system that reaches up to the 90cm goal. Of course it will have to start 18cm and unfold/telescope to that height. This lifting system is similar to a conveyor belt (perhaps with brushes?) that takes balls from the floor, and straight up dumps them into the goal it has possession of.

If said mechanism is fast enough, you will be incapable of acquiring more than 5 balls at a time, because they will be spit out the top too fast.

You can't grab on to the ball tube (major penalty), and grabbing onto the bottom would risk toppling the tube over, especially the 90cm one since it's not wheels on the bottom but little metal ball things.