Team 1114 - Simbot SideSwipe

[TD78]

Originally Posted by thatprogrammer

How do they flip the RC's that are tipped? Livestream is too low-quality to make this out.

To me, looks like they use the two sets of wheels (front and back) to suck in the RC, then flip it upright.

[thatprogrammer]

Originally Posted by TD78

To me, looks like they use the two sets of wheels (front and back) to suck in the RC, then flip it upright.

Yeah, I get that part. I'm confused by what they're using TO flip them. It happens so fast... like magic :O

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by thatprogrammer

Yeah, I get that part. I'm confused by what they're using TO flip them. It happens so fast... like magic :O

I was assuming that in the act of sucking the RC in, it pivots at the stop on the bottom of the RC causing it to move upward.

[pntbll1313]

Originally Posted by thatprogrammer

Yeah, I get that part. I'm confused by what they're using TO flip them. It happens so fast... like magic :O

Yep, confirmed it's magic.

[audietron]

Originally Posted by thatprogrammer

Yeah, I get that part. I'm confused by what they're using TO flip them. It happens so fast... like magic :O

Possibly they pull it in and catch the bottom to tip it up. Using the polycarb pieces they have in the front of the robot. I believe they added them after the original picture was taken.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by thatprogrammer

How do they flip the RC's that are tipped? Livestream is too low-quality to make this out.

I'll take a close up picture of it today.

[orangemoore]

Simbotics has a Qualification average 142.9 while 2nd place has an average of 73.6...

[Doug Frisk]

Originally Posted by thatprogrammer

Yeah, I get that part. I'm confused by what they're using TO flip them. It happens so fast... like magic :O

I think they're moving the "lift belts" on the side downward which pushes the back of the can down while the wheels pull the container in.

[Kyle_1881]

Does anyone know how simbots ramp is tethered in the GTC Regional?

[Dave McLaughlin]

Originally Posted by Kyle_1881

Does anyone know how simbots ramp is tethered in the GTC Regional?

Uhhh... Strap?

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by Kyle_1881

Does anyone know how simbots ramp is tethered in the GTC Regional?

In eliminations it has been tethered to 1547. Before the first final you could see a member of 1114 set up the ramp then lay out a cord of some sort along the back wall, then the 1547 drivers connected a cord /cable from their bot to the one 1114 ran. Not a bad strategy, assuming 1547 was under weight.

I posted in the regional thread as well, but the other alliance having a team disabled in the finals for not being brought on field in the transport configuration made me wonder how this strategy is legal. 1114 clearly carried the ramp on the field independent from any robot, and then connected it to the 1547 bot once on the field. Doesn't this violate the transport configuration rules?

[cjl2625]

Originally Posted by JamesBrown

In eliminations it has been tethered to 1547. Before the first final you could see a member of 1114 set up the ramp then lay out a cord of some sort along the back wall, then the 1547 drivers connected a cord /cable from their bot to the one 1114 ran. Not a bad strategy, assuming 1547 was under weight.

So was 1547 not moving on purpose? Was their only role to hold the ramp with some string?
Or is their lack of movement something else

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by cjl2625

So was 1547 not moving on purpose? Was their only role to hold the ramp with some string?
Or is their lack of movement something else

According to the Webcast chat it was strategy, but I would wait to hear from the teams to be sure.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by JamesBrown

I posted in the regional thread as well, but the other alliance having a team disabled in the finals for not being brought on field in the transport configuration made me wonder how this strategy is legal. 1114 clearly carried the ramp on the field independent from any robot, and then connected it to the 1547 bot once on the field. Doesn't this violate the transport configuration rules?

2994 was disabled for extending into the landfill without a quick fix being possible (if they had moved back they would have been in auto zone).

We were instructed since Thursday to extend out of transportation configuration in queue as long as it was safe. That wasn't why they were disabled.

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by Gregor

We were instructed since Thursday to extend out of transportation configuration in queue as long as it was safe. That wasn't why they were disabled.

Can't say I like this provision, but Thanks for the info, I found it hard to believe it would have been an oversight by 1114.