Low-Bar Challenged Robots - Support Group

[markmcgary]

Originally Posted by bobby5150

How about taking shots that can't be blocked?

How about a low-bar challenged robot blocking your vision?

[Ichlieberoboter]

Team 2499 is a proud member of this group✋🏻

[Monochromicon]

You know, almost all of these robot reveals seem to be setting a low bar for the competition. We can all take solace in that.

[D_Price]

Staying strong in these times of change as we are also a Vertically challenged robot (in a good way). We make limbo obsolete.

[prozack19]

reporting in to bring my support for the left handed... I mean low bar challenged teams.

[davidaustin]

Proud member of #TeamTall!

[Michael Blake]

#TeamTall #ThinkTall #TallPower #PowertotheTalls #ImTallYoureNOT #GetShorty

Here's our entry to this Support Group I started... a pretty-tall 2016 KNIGHTmare...

APOLOGIES for the messy shop-area, I usually run a much tighter ship but we were _cranking_ to finish TWO twin bots _before_ Bag/Tag Day... a _first_ for us...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aygq...ature=youtu.be

Any comments or input are welcome... we're busy iterating on the practice bot for the next two weeks... expecting to show _more_ at Alamo...

CONGRATS to the Bronc Botz student team members... I'm a proud coach... ;-)

--Michael Blake

[Henrique Schmit]

#TeamTall

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/42855

[northstardon]

Should reports on successful low-bar challenged robots be posted here to cheer up the support group, or do they deserve their own thread?

Team 1876 BeachBotics just scored 2 high goals and scaled in a dominant performance during their first Week 0.5 match at Palmetto. Or at least I think it was their very tall robot...livestream was a little fuzzy.

[Michael Blake]

Originally Posted by northstardon

Should reports on successful low-bar challenged robots be posted here to cheer up the support group, or do they deserve their own thread?

Team 1876 BeachBotics just scored 2 high goals and scaled in a dominant performance during their first Week 0.5 match at Palmetto. Or at least I think it was their very tall robot...livestream was a little fuzzy.

Post these successes HERE!

We need to keep the movement going...

--Michael Blake

[northstardon]

Originally Posted by Michael Blake

Post these successes HERE!

We need to keep the movement going...

--Michael Blake

And for their next trick, 1876 scales with a ball on-board, and then shoots a high goal while it's hanging from the rung!

I'm in love with this robot.

[3a11]

Originally Posted by northstardon

And for their next trick, 1876 scales with a ball on-board, and then shoots a high goal while it's hanging from the rung!

Wouldn't that be illegal as they are not in contact with the opponent's courtyard carpet?

EDIT: My bad! I missed the part in G39 where it says you can be in contact with the opponents TOWER and still launch a BOULDER.

[cglrcng]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

Lol Jared! (Internet LIES? Never) If it's on the net...It Must Be Absolutely TRUE!

That poll does not even list a response from me, as when it came out I was absolutely dead set against our team making it all fit in that expected teeny tiny package (it was giving me absolute nightmares during what little sleep I was getting in weeks 1 & 2 just trying to figure out how you could squeeze all that you needed to into those very little spaces (and still work in them later that is), and do most everything in the game if absolutely forced to).

But we did, and we have all kinds of space left (at least on our boulder collecting/shooting end, even after handling low bar and all the other defenses, and shooting high/low over anything in front of us up to 4'~9" tall or so, plus scaling the tower via the ever historic Team 60 PTO.

It sure made it a long build season though. Waaaaaaaay too much prototyping! Not enough actual robot building early enough. I think they built 4 robots in the time frame....And have 1.75 to show for it currently.

[cglrcng]

Originally Posted by 3a11

Wouldn't that be illegal as they are not in contact with the opponent's courtyard carpet?

EDIT: My bad! I missed the part in G39 where it says you can be in contact with the opponents TOWER and still launch a BOULDER.

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Ohhhhhhh, TY for the addition. I missed that built in capability. A last second soft shot! (Our billboard is on the PTO Arm and is against the tower vertically during the scale, shooter is wide open, arc is right, height is right).

But, the first one that misses (bouncing it high/low off the tower or their own robot or the bar), and lands their boulder in another alliance members robot hanging on bar or parked on the batter (that already has a boulder in it), may end many of those last second attempts. Hard lessons may be learned.

It would be a killer to be ahead by a few points in the match, and take a penalty at the last moment due to that, and lose RP's or worse Playoff matches. Hero to zero in 1 press of a button and a bounce.

[Michael Blake]

Competition Week 1 reveals...

Need _MORE_ members in the support group... CHIME IN!!

#TeamTall #ThinkTall #TallPower #PowertotheTalls #ImTallYoureNOT #GetShorty

--Michael Blake