pic: Shovel knight 2016

[C.Lesco]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

After having thought about it briefly, it looks like this snow shovel as an arm could actually be a useful manipulator... With reasonable control and a little care you could probably:

- Lift Portcullis (passive wedge, even?)
- Lower CDF
- Possess/coral balls.. may not be easy to retain possession of while crossing Defenses though!
- Potentially score in LG
- Shovel Fries... and Snow!

To reply to alot this is a mass answer.
YO BRO HIGHGOALS?
It doesnt work as a shooter but funny story, our robot quite obviously had no way to shoot so when teams at worlds came scouting if they actually asked if we could shoot high we said "that shovel back there can shoot 8 highgoals a match with no vision processing . Funniest moment is when pre match stratagy started and the other teams mentor said " our scouts said you guys can do 8 highgoals a match" the look of confusion was priceless and one of my highlights this season (totally worth the hate I'm going to get for that. If that was you sorry guys, didnt mean to hurt anyone)

How?
Andymark snowblower motor attached half by zipties to the frame (the 5870 norm ), custom DD 10mm hub (too thick to realise we needed one while ordering so had to make one) driving a 22 tooth vex sprocket with a 3:1 additional ratio. 25 series vex chain. Used that setup for Mamooth primeval (our second intake) and blocker as well as this.

Why?
Balldozer, portcullis opener, CDF operator, looks stupid and fun

Footage?
Never put on at comp, the outreaches we did with it werent videos but I'll post our old intake test videos below. This used the same motor setup to lift and lower.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=UUK...&v=S2bsw0-lQDo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=UUK...&v=LuhWXjCh08I

And nathan youre absolutely dead on.