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Or you could make the much talked about but never made two part robot that could break into two halves and block both ball chutes.
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Just drag your goal (or theirs) in front of the chute you want to block, depending on your strategy.
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If any bot tries to block our corral openings, our bot will drag them to the highest yard-arm and hang em by their wires
making sure they are touching the ground with one wheel :c0 while you are busy blocking a corral opening, the opponent bot can be busy stuffing balls in the other one, going after the 2x balls, dragging your small goal away from your team - capping your goal with a 2x ball so you cant score why would you want to tell your own bot to go sit in the corner? Does it have a bad attitude? |
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May all of your balls and goals belong to us!!!! |
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anything that is wide enough to block both corral openings would have to be, what? 24 feet wide?
assuming your bot is in the center of those wings, thats a 12 foot lever I dont care how much traction or weight your bot has, if I grab the end of the 12 foot lever I will drag your bot all over the field - turning the wings into pretzels in the process. BTW - rules state nothing can detach from your bot. nothing can be tethered either |
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Looks like we are thinking the same thing....NJ should be fun ![]() |
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if your wings are exactly 24 feet wide, then you would have to center your bot perfectly before opening them, which would be impossible
so the wings would have to be a little shorter than the width of the field - meaning there would be small openings at both ends besides, to deploy said wings, the end of the field would have to be completely clear of balls, or they would keep them from being flush with the walls. |
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Trust me when I say you can't controll the game, only play it. Sparky 3.0 won the design award at VCU in 2002, but failed horribly in the finals, and didn't even make it to the finals in Champs. It wanted to controll the game. Guess what. I couldn't have. Build a bot that can do one thing and do it well, and stick to it. Then build around that. Sparky 4 was built for 2 things: bin maneuvering & fast autonomous mode. Stacking, throwing bins, and everything else came latter as the pieces feel into place. You must design with the intention of not being a one-man army, but working with partners. Sparky 3.0 didn't work well with others. It failed. Same with all the other ramp blockers from last year. Also, alliance partners pick on strengths and how you complement them, not if you try to dominate the game and they just sit around the theoretically twiddle their thumbs! |
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yes, 6 feet wide on both sides of the endfield - so your wings would have to span 24 feet to block both of them.
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