Stretchy and Fetchy-1657 robot reveal

[PayneTrain]

gg israel

[Sperkowsky]

Thats such a cool idea I was hoping for something like this so Im glad someone did it.

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

gg israel

we ff, surrender at 20

[ronlottem]

thank you everyone for all these comments!
espacially for the ones putting us on the same league as the RoboRanglers or giving us the championship before the first competition even started.
we never thaught our robot will get so much hype, and i hope it will satisfy all of you.
we'll meet the israeli teams at the Israel regional. if we win there you all could see our robot in st. louis

[Nick Lawrence]

This is very cool. Great work. Hope to see it up close in St. Louis!

-Nick

[Dan Petrovic]

Man, the Creativity Award judges are really going to have their work cut out for them this year.

[sagi34]

Great Robot!
Looking forward to see you at Israel Regional

[Anthony Galea]

I really love this robot. I've always wanted to see a conveyor belt strategy pulled off since I started watching FIRST events (2010).

I would love to see this against 148, only these teams, just 1v1.

[cglrcng]

Noooo! There are going to be 4 more very lucky bots on that field every time they go out I hope.

Now, we are only missing an auto crane bot!

[Paperclips]

Fantastic work. This is an amazing strategy- and very well executed.
Two questions- can the robot push more than two stacks at once or was that just not shown because of lack of totes?
And second- just wondering how that gets folded into transport configuration.
Awesome design overall, and good luck this season!

[Isaac Ash]

Originally Posted by Paperclips

Fantastic work. This is an amazing strategy- and very well executed.
Two questions- can the robot push more than two stacks at once or was that just not shown because of lack of totes?

I would also like to know how any subsequent stacks are put on the platform. It seems like a capped six stack would be knocked over very easily if you tried to push a second stack into it.

[BBray_T1296]

Originally Posted by AshTestDummy

I would also like to know how any subsequent stacks are put on the platform. It seems like a capped six stack would be knocked over very easily if you tried to push a second stack into it.

Since the whole (second) stack would be be ejected by force on the bottom tote, I would think that said tote would be the primary medium for force to be applied to the first stack. Not the only application point of force, but the upper totes will tend to just bump against each other. If you carefully push a capped 6 stack from just the bottom, it should move safely, considering the low coefficient of friction of the scoring platform

[Jacob Bendicksen]

Great name, great concept, great execution. I'm curious to see how the transport configuration works - that's got to be fun.

Good luck this season!

[ToddF]

This is terrific. We brainstormed this idea, but decided to play the game a different way. I love your implementation. Out of curiosity, how many stacks can you build at maximum throughput?

[ronlottem]

Originally Posted by ToddF

This is terrific. We brainstormed this idea, but decided to play the game a different way. I love your implementation. Out of curiosity, how many stacks can you build at maximum throughput?

3 stacks of 6 totes, all of them with containers. We won't go for pool noodles because of the time