Best landfill bots

[Chris is me]

We don't "score at a high level", in large part because we have almost no ability to manipulate the recycling container, but we are pretty effective at scoring totes from the landfill, hitting two stacks of four (or a stack of five and three) pretty consistently by the end of our event. With a bit of CG adjustment and software tuning for our next event, two stacks of five should be easy for us, and hopefully we'll get more. We waste a lot of time getting totes lined up with our hooks and can't drive very well with a full stack of 5 at this point.

I'll try and get some video up soon. The key to being a good landfill robot this year is to have really prototyped the crap out of intake. Two wheels on sticks that they can grab totes won't cut it. We had a team spend three weeks of build season finding the perfect wheel material, arrangement, and geometry to intake totes at any angle. Totes nearly perpendicular to the robot can be spun into the right orientation if you get it right.

[Boltman]

We can do either. Competing in Ventura this week and SD next...just as fast LF as HP.

The Achilles of a majority of teams regardless of HP or LF design is that they have to place themselves perfectly(wasting time)...we built our bot to be able to manipulate any object in any orientation... with an adjustable Pneumatic stable fork max height and Omni H drive. So LF is no issue can grab any two totes either direction or upside down one (maybe two)... and HP as long as we are there we can easily stack and control totes out chute door. Same time to build any stack from either...and HP load RC's to top on side or standing.

We'll see how that translates this weekend on a real field. It should do well based on past events I viewed of other bots and practice.

I am in awe of 1114...by far best bot. Outstanding for a single bot engineering wise blew my mind.

I would not say we are LF oriented rather Field oriented. Should be fun.

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

Team 3360 was consistently hitting 2 capped 6-stacks from the landfill after auto at the Montreal playoffs

[SJaladi]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

We don't "score at a high level", in large part because we have almost no ability to manipulate the recycling container

We also have a similar problem, in that we lack the ability to score RC's quickly, but by the semifinals at TVR we could easily make 3 stacks of 4 out of the landfill, with about 50 seconds left over to try and cap one. I believe if we kept going at that speed we could have made at least 1 maybe 2 more. (We were making stacks of 4 because that was the most our alliance partners could cap for us).

For Worlds we hope make modifications to make capping our own stacks much more efficient.

[nixiebunny]

Our team The Bit Buckets, 4183, just outdid themselves by winning the Arizona East regional. Two capped stacks of four plus whatever work needed in the last 40 seconds.

And our robot is made of laser-cut plywood.

[mrnoble]

Originally Posted by nixiebunny

Our team The Bit Buckets, 4183, just outdid themselves by winning the Arizona East regional. Two capped stacks of four plus whatever work needed in the last 40 seconds.

And our robot is made of laser-cut plywood.

Your team has been exciting to watch! I have been keenly interested, since you built the only other independent sliding tote holders I have seen this year. It was fantastic to see your success yesterday! I sure hope we can duplicate that in Denver next week.