Australian Team 4729 Robot Reveal: "Roadkill"

[swwrobotics]

Is there a way you all are preventing the tape measure from bending when climbing? Otherwise it looks like the robot has a a higher chance of going more than the 15" outside of the frame perimeter, relative to the bumpers.

[squad1706]

Nice looking robot guys! Since I haven't seen any of your teams build thread's (if they exist), might I ask what exactly your strategy is? Are your guys going to have a shooter, or are you going for the defenses?

[dominik.daners]

Originally Posted by swwrobotics

Is there a way you all are preventing the tape measure from bending when climbing? Otherwise it looks like the robot has a a higher chance of going more than the 15" outside of the frame perimeter, relative to the bumpers.

So far during testing if the tape would bend, it would fall and hit the climbing wall or collapse onto the robot, and has never really extended past the bumpers at all, let alone getting close to the 15" frame perimeter limit.

Originally Posted by squad1706

Nice looking robot guys! Since I haven't seen any of your teams build thread's (if they exist), might I ask what exactly your strategy is? Are your guys going to have a shooter, or are you going for the defenses?

As for a build thread, we don't have one, however we may use one next year.
Our current strategy is fast cycle low goal scoring, i.e. collect boulder from our secret passage, then through the low bar (or whichever is more convenient), score in the low goal and then drive back through any defense and repeat the process. Which defense we cross will depend heavily on our alliance partners and whatever will maximize points. And of course we will be scaling at the end.