Karthik & 1114: Effective FIRST Strategies 2016 - Championship Conference

[marccenter]

Originally Posted by Rivet Man

Hi marccenter,

Although I've never watched one of Karthik's presentations I have heard about them!

I think that putting in the example that you generously provided about your own team's experience would help the audience lock onto the topic at hand. Do you have any video of this mechanism in action? I tried searching thebluealliance for it but had a bit of a tough time finding this device opening the Portcullis.

Again, always love to see how engaged people are! I'll be riveted to my screen later tonight when I get around to watching one of Karthik's old videos (These are posted on Youtube, right?).

Best Regards,
RM

Here's an example from the FiM Southfield district event during autonomous in match 63. The large, 4 inch wheels added to the ball intake mechanism are used to raise the portcullis during auton period.

http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2016misou_qm63

[Brutick]

Never had a chance to catch one of these in person, but they're always great and informative! Hoping to see a live stream or a video afterwards

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by marccenter

Here's an example from the FiM Southfield district event during autonomous in match 63. The large, 4 inch wheels added to the ball intake mechanism are used to raise the portcullis during auton period.

http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2016misou_qm63

I don't have a video example (yet? maybe when North Bay posts their archives) but we discovered that our robot could use our shooter to raise the portcullis, as well as lower the cheval de frise. It could in theory, with some minor rework, shoot high goals. We tried to make high goals work with it as-is, but it was too inconsistent for us to do in real matches because we had no intermediate stop between up and down.

Here's a picture of our robot.