Cheesecaking a Defensive Robot

[thrystan]

Originally Posted by CalTran

You can cut and drill into it all you want, you just have to do that on-site and on-the-weekend-of. You can bring in all the COTS materials you can fit into your pit, but that's the rub - it's all COTS. By technical definition, once a product is past "[an] unaltered, unmodified state [from point of purchase]," it's no longer a COTS part and would be part of your withholding allowance. Arguably, no one is going to ask for an invoice for each piece of metal you brought in, but if it's obviously already been cut you might be inviting a few questions from an RI.

Actually there is a blue box in section 4.1 of the game manual that specifically deals with items that are neither COTS nor fabricated parts and the example is a 20 foot piece of raw material that has been cut to 5 foot lengths for ease of transport.

[EricH]

Use last year's pool noodles (the ones you didn't stick in your bumpers). And plenty of duct tape. Just make sure that you go through inspection with them on.

No, I'm not joking. 1452 sprouted a full head of green (pool noodle) hair between L.A. Finals 1 and L.A. Finals 2. Blocked a few shots... and that wasn't the part that failed when they needed it most.

[GreyingJay]

So the weekend of Greater Toronto Regional East, my team was hosting a public Raspberry Pi robotics workshop at our local library. Toward the end we gave a quick demo of our FRC robot. Meanwhile, the live stream from GTRE was running on a projector on the other side of the room.

While everyone was watching our demo, I saw that a finals match had just started. I shushed the crowd and said "everyone please turn around and look behind you, this is a live competition match happening right now!"

Everyone turned around - JUST in time to catch a close up of 3710's robot drive by - complete with a blocker made of a clear bag draped over its "head" and a giant angry-smiley face made of tape!

[Type]

Originally Posted by GreyingJay

So the weekend of Greater Toronto Regional East, my team was hosting a public Raspberry Pi robotics workshop at our local library. Toward the end we gave a quick demo of our FRC robot. Meanwhile, the live stream from GTRE was running on a projector on the other side of the room.

While everyone was watching our demo, I saw that a finals match had just started. I shushed the crowd and said "everyone please turn around and look behind you, this is a live competition match happening right now!"

Everyone turned around - JUST in time to catch a close up of 3710's robot drive by - complete with a blocker made of a clear bag draped over its "head" and a giant angry-smiley face made of tape!

My team was actually just looking at that last night, we were trying to find video proof to show our Coach that we are able to cheesecake partners.

Thank you all for the help! I think I understand what I can do better to get parts ready for defensive cheescaking.

[g_sawchuk]

It appears that some robots have already been "cheesecaked"....literally.