Team Update 21 (2016)

[RoboChair]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

https://firstfrc.blob.core.windows.n...Updates/21.pdf

I'm glad they changed G12, now I don't need to follow through on how to get one of our alliance robots to climb our own tower and block the 3 high goals. Figuring out a cheesecake to allow a robot to jump 10 inches straight up and lock onto a rung, rotate up and deploy blocking flaps sounded awesome but way too much time to develop and make. Now I might actually get to watch some of our matches!!!

After we did some post Sac Regional scheming we determined that blocking all 3 high goals was allowed in the rules, as was hanging from your own tower thus getting around the blocking goals while ON the BATTER. After about a week of thinking about it we had come up with 2 methods of achieving this by cheesecaking an alliance member for elims. We decided to give up the idea to go through with it for a a couple of reasons.
1. We didn't want to sink our valuable iteration time into R&D for something that would be very hard to have work.
2. In Bird Person culture this is what is considered an "Ungracious move".
Glad to see this loophole got closed up.

Prototype concept pictures of "chokehold" bot(as proof of our crazy ideas).