Einstein Can-Race Compilation Video

[barn34]

We were hoping to get the opportunity to test ours against the best this weekend. Unfortunately, that opportunity will have to apparently wait until IRI.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=...&v=G3o_VpobYFs

[Louis_]

Originally Posted by Electronica1

Ok, so watch this video muted while playing this in the background. It actually works pretty well.

+1 edit this into the song.

[trumpthero786]

Thank you for this great video!

[Chris Hapstack]

Thanks, everyone! I figured video was the only way I was going to clearly see the races from the upper deck.

I think 548 embodied the best parts of the whole cheesecakeing trend by continuing to help teams even when their personal interests were no longer at stake. I was definitely hoping for 548 to get to Einstein so we could see a 548 v. 1711 matchup, kind of an ironic master/pupil showdown.

Not getting to see 1114's harpoons in action was unfortunate, and I'm convinced that the burglars 254/973 debuted in the Carson tournament could have beaten anything we saw on Einstein. According to 254, they could snag the cans in 120ms. They were shockingly fast in person.

[JB987]

Just to add to the discussion...
987's bot was programmed to start back driving at .07 seconds and as you can see from the slow-mo our weakness was the flexibility (which we went with to minimize damage) of our arms. We lost some precious time reduction for our claw to the can as a result. Kudos and congratulations to the winning alliance! As so many of us were saying all along...it's about the cans man (mostly )

[seanthompson]

Originally Posted by Anteprefix

1678 faced off directly against 3310 in Semifinal 2 on Newton and won the can battle.

Pretty sure they agreed to each take two of the cans, and never actually faced off.

[Anteprefix]

Originally Posted by seanthompson

Pretty sure they agreed to each take two of the cans, and never actually faced off.

I seem to recall 3310 losing the race and then grabbing 2 from the other side during teleop. I could be mistaken though. Did anyone take video of Newton eliminations?

[DampRobot]

I was surprised how exciting and fun this aspect of the game was (even though it really only came into play at CMP elims and Einstien). It's also impressive how dominant 1678s grabbers were, I'd really like to take a look at them one day.

[Bennett548]

Don't thank just us! The Raptors somehow built those in two weeks with no unbag time. It took us three to build our first set, and we had some unbag time.

I also forgot to say that team 67 had some canburglars that seem to have been partly inspired by 548's. At msc they used polycarbonate arms, but I hear that at World's they came over to the dark side and used carbon fiber.

I'm going to try to get the students to put together a whitepaper about how those canburglars were designed and built.

[orangelight]

Originally Posted by Bennett548

Don't thank just us! The Raptors somehow built those in two weeks with no unbag time. It took us three to build our first set, and we had some unbag time.

I also forgot to say that team 67 had some canburglars that seem to have been partly inspired by 548's. At msc they used polycarbonate arms, but I hear that at World's they came over to the dark side and used carbon fiber.

I'm going to try to get the students to put together a whitepaper about how those canburglars were designed and built.

Great we're going to write a paper...

[TJP123]

Originally Posted by Bennett548

I think it would be really cool to have a canburglar drag-race off to the side of the practice area at IRI, with an ultra high-speed camera to catch the action and find out the fastest.

We had the same thought. That might be more fun than the full event.

[tindleroot]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I noticed that there were not any teams on Einstein that were featured MAINLY for their canburgling (e.g. 548, 3310, 503, etc.) While the canburglars on Einstein were lightning fast, they were not THE fastest compared to some of these other teams.

I think the reason this tends to happen is because many of the top seeds decided to pick the top teams for stacking ability in addition to canburgling, and teams like 118, 987, 1114, etc. had both fast burglars and superior stacking ability (548 does too). When our team was making our pick list Friday night, we decided to favor 68 just ahead of 503 since 68 could make more stacks in addition to their canburglar, even though 503's canburglar was proven and fast. I'm sure a lot of alliance captains without canburglars had similar discussions as well.

[orangelight]

Originally Posted by TJP123

We had the same thought. That might be more fun than the full event.

2016 Game: Crazy Canburglars

[Brian Selle]

Thanks for this video, great job.

Originally Posted by Anteprefix

1678 faced off directly against 3310 in Semifinal 2 on Newton and won the can battle.

This is not true. We agreed prior to take opposite sides. Based on slow motion video 1678 gets to the can about 20-30ms before 3310 but that wouldn't have mattered as we would have locked in the hole before the cans moved. It would have been an epic tug-of-war.

[Kevin Leonard]

Originally Posted by tindleroot

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I noticed that there were not any teams on Einstein that were featured MAINLY for their canburgling (e.g. 548, 3310, 503, etc.) While the canburglars on Einstein were lightning fast, they were not THE fastest compared to some of these other teams.

I think the reason this tends to happen is because many of the top seeds decided to pick the top teams for stacking ability in addition to canburgling, and teams like 118, 987, 1114, etc. had both fast burglars and superior stacking ability (548 does too). When our team was making our pick list Friday night, we decided to favor 68 just ahead of 503 since 68 could make more stacks in addition to their canburglar, even though 503's canburglar was proven and fast. I'm sure a lot of alliance captains without canburglars had similar discussions as well.

1711's job on the 1325 alliance was to right containers and burgle cans. And if there was none of that, they'd pull totes 1 by 1 from the landfill

It wasn't a glamorous job, but it was better than 20 doing the same job for sure. Our canburglars were much slower, and much less consistent.