Have you tried parking on the Batter?

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay

This is all dependent on gear ratio, wheel size, friction, etc.

^This.

Our robot was at the official Week Zero event and didn't need one to stay on the batter however that wasn't the case for every robot.

If you really want to end the match parked on the Batter, start planning something to hold you there now if you don't have the ability to test your robot on a lexan incline between now and your event.

[Caleb Sykes]

Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay

This is all dependent on gear ratio, wheel size, friction, etc.

Speed controller setting is also important. I'll be checking with every team I encounter that their speed controllers are set to brake mode.

[scca229]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

It depends a lot on the wheels and gear ratio. With stuff like pneumatic wheels going over the lip pretty much no matter what. The best way to do it is drive on the batter and then rotate or try to drive up at an angle.

I guess this might be an advantage of the plain old Kit Bot drive train as we don't have an issue with that. 8" pneumatic wheels, no other modifications to the provided kit and ours doesn't move when power is cut on the incline of the batter. Maybe I need to find out if the kids actually greased the gearboxes We are also royally underweight, so that is probably helping as well.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes

Speed controller setting is also important. I'll be checking with every team I encounter that their speed controllers are set to brake mode.

Fair heads up, CAN bus teams can dynamically switch that really easily. It's actually pretty nice.

[BJT]

If you have a heavy end of your robot, park that against the lip. Our robot is pretty heavy on the back when the shooter is up, and stays parked. Low gear and brake mode on the talons helps so if you roll into the lip it is slow.

[daliberator]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

Yea we had plenty of teams play defense on us. A good defender can definitely shut us down a bit but, I think they are going to focus on the high goal shooters for the most part. We also have had a lot of driver practice with a week 0, and 5 practice events with other teams.

Were you scoring 8 boulders at Suffield in 5-minute matches, or somewhere else with regulation time? Either way, that's pretty cool.

[whitetail]

We have two fingers that go down and stop us at the end of the match from rolling off the batter.

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by daliberator

Were you scoring 8 boulders at Suffield in 5-minute matches, or somewhere else with regulation time? Either way, that's pretty cool.

Well both. I think our max at Suffield was 11 with a capture. During a normal match we can do 8. While crossing the B and D defenses. Although we can also do the Cheval DE Frise and Drawbridge solo we can not do it while scoring 8 boulders

[Coach Seb]

"A ROBOT has CHALLENGED the TOWER if, at the conclusion of the MATCH, the ROBOT is fully supported by the TOWER, but hasn’t met the criteria for SCALING the TOWER."

To make sure i understand this correctly, this means that the robot cannot touch the courtyard carpet, it has to be positioned fully on the batter ?

[MrForbes]

That's the plan....

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

Well both. I think our max at Suffield was 11 with a capture. During a normal match we can do 8. While crossing the B and D defenses. Although we can also do the Cheval DE Frise and Drawbridge solo we can not do it while scoring 8 boulders

There were 6 balls on the midfield at Suffield, three at the human player station, and three in all of the robots in your alliance. In order to score 11 balls in a match, you would need to have obtained every ball your alliance could have possibly controlled except for one. Since balls weren't returned to human players, this is a bit suspect. I had to leave Suffield early since 228 had some problems to fix, so I didn't watch all your matches, but this is a tall order even in a 5 minute match. Did they start returning balls by the end of the day or something?

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

There were 6 balls on the midfield at Suffield, three at the human player station, and three in all of the robots in your alliance. In order to score 11 balls in a match, you would need to have obtained every ball your alliance could have possibly controlled except for one. Since balls weren't returned to human players, this is a bit suspect. I had to leave Suffield early since 228 had some problems to fix, so I didn't watch all your matches, but this is a tall order even in a 5 minute match. Did they start returning balls by the end of the day or something?

They got a shipment of boulders half way through the day.

[Caleb Sykes]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

During a normal match we can do 8.

I'm going to call a "video or it didn't happen" on this. Please prove me wrong.

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes

I'm going to call a "video or it didn't happen" on this. Please prove me wrong.

I'll get a video in 2 weeks.