'Snow Problem 2015 - Stronghold

[jvdiv]

Originally Posted by CalTran

That is a sick little bot you made! Two questions; I take it this captures a tower by parking on the Batter, and any chance of there being more videos of it interacting with the Cheval? There was a brief clip of it in the video but I'm interested in which mechanism you actually lowered the "ramps" with.

The device to lower the cheval de frise is a bag motor mounted to a versa planetary at 81:1. We didn't have a chance to tune the shooter for that range, but I suspect that we could shoot from the outer works. It currently is set up for shooting from the alignment line.

[cadandcookies]

In addition to the forthcoming explanation video, also look forward to our CAD model release, which will happen before the time it happened last year (week 5), and after I get a chance to clean up some parts of the model and get all critical subsystems updated to what you see in the reveal video.

We'll also be releasing a complete breakdown of our strategic and decision making process here and on our website, which should be up tomorrow, and a written version of the explanatory video. As always, feel free to post in this thread, PM us, or hit us up on Twitter, Facebook, or any of our video pages.

Best of luck to all teams in FIRST Stronghold!

[Mr V]

Great work guys.

[sanddrag]

Talk about driving it like you stole it, man, that was awesome! Totally jumped it! I love this game already. I thought you would have named it the General Lee. I think IRI should have "the biggest air" contest.

[jvdiv]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Talk about driving it like you stole it, man, that was awesome! Totally jumped it! I love this game already. I thought you would have named it the General Lee. I think IRI should have "the biggest air" contest.

That is Peter's driving style

[rpaulsen]

Awesome video! You guys did a great job, and my team has been thinking along the same lines that you have. Are you able to breach the portcullis or Category C defense from the neutral zone, or are you planning to rely on alliance members to assist?

[rzoeller]

Originally Posted by rpaulsen

Awesome video! You guys did a great job, and my team has been thinking along the same lines that you have. Are you able to breach the portcullis or Category C defense from the neutral zone, or are you planning to rely on alliance members to assist?

We prioritized the B, D, and low bar defenses in our strategy and initial planning. While we did build the sally port, we never had a chance to test it to my knowledge.

We may try it on a practice field in the area at a later date, but we don't have any definite plans currently.

[Chief Hedgehog]

Love it. That is a pretty incredible robot. I wouldn't expect anything less from you guys!

[Abhishek R]

Wow! It's so compact, I love it. Easily my favorite so far. I love the motion of the intake when it retracts/extends. Very well done.

[ehochstein]

Originally Posted by Abhishek R

Wow! It's so compact, I love it. Easily my favorite so far. I love the motion of the intake when it retracts/extends. Very well done.

Thanks! We really like it too.

Originally Posted by rpaulsen

Awesome video! You guys did a great job, and my team has been thinking along the same lines that you have. Are you able to breach the portcullis or Category C defense from the neutral zone, or are you planning to rely on alliance members to assist?

Like Ryan said, we didn't get a chance to test these items but there would be enough room to modify our manipulator on the back to do all of these. Theoretically it should be able to lift the portcullis and possibly open the sally port. Currently, I can assure you it would not do the drawbridge, but there are some simple designs we could do to solve that.

[MrRoboSteve]

Excellent work. Loved watching the live stream, and the robot is great.

[Ginger Power]

Awesome job guys! I'm very impressed with your robot. I'd love to see it in person at some point! Hopefully we can demo them at the Duluth and/or Minneapolis regionals.

[waialua359]

Clever, subtle adjusting intake. Nice!

[rzoeller]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Clever, subtle adjusting intake. Nice!

It originally didn't actuate and we intended to extend our frame perimeter beneath it, but realized that we would have trouble breaching some defenses with both the extended perimeter and bumpers. Linear actuation seemed to be the easiest method to work around that

[nuclearnerd]

Originally Posted by rzoeller

It originally didn't actuate and we intended to extend our frame perimeter beneath it, but realized that we would have trouble breaching some defenses with both the extended perimeter and bumpers. Linear actuation seemed to be the easiest method to work around that

And it works to hold the ball on the catapult I imagine