Real defenses are nothing like the wood versions

[wireties]

Originally Posted by BeardyMentor

And it showed at the Palmetto Regional. We loved watching Mittens the robot fly through the outer works. As I recall you guys had some motor trouble in semi finals? I am sorry that you had to lose that way.

Yeah, that was tough. Our software did not catch a stall event in auton and burned the motors up - bad timing! The robot is so small it runs on a couple 775s on each side. The 775s are awesome but you have to protect them, no stalling allowed.

Originally Posted by BeardyMentor

I think it is wonderful that you have these resources and are willing to share them with the other teams in your area.

Glad to help where we can! Some, but not all, of the defenses are very different rendered in steel.

[Cam877]

Yes, we had a big problem with this at Mount Olive this weekend. As a few of you may have seen in our reveal video, our autonomous mode was working absolutely perfectly consistently on the wooden practice field, but once we hit the real field we had serious problems, even the change in material on the outer works ramp up to the low bar changed things considerably. Made it extremely difficult for us.

[Chris Hibner]

Originally Posted by vikesrock777

What type of wheels were you using if I may ask? This was a concern of mine as well, but I'll have to wait and see what actually happens next weekend when we get to see the real field.

6-inch pneumatic tires, 8-WD. Similar to the 8-inch pneumatic wheels that you can get from AndyMark.