POLL: have small balls been abandoned?

[Solace]

here's a poll that's slightly different from all the other ones flying around.


from all the pictures that have been posted so far, it seems like very few teams have made herding the small balls a priority, opting instead for control of the large balls and hanging on the bar.

anyone can push small balls around. when I refer to making it a priority, i refer mostly to a robot around which the small balls play a significant role in bot design (i.e. holding the balls on the robot or having a specifically designed plow). specifically, i have yet to see many bots that hold the balls inside themselves.

so here we go. choose your bot configuration. and remember that if you are just pushing the balls with the front of your robot, it doesn't count.

[Madison]

Well, at this point, we've probably seen less than 10 complete robots. That's a small fraction of the teams who are competing this year, so I think you can expect that at least some small handful will be designed to adeptly handle the small balls.

[Solace]

true, but that at least this way i can figure out what the spread is.

I was mainly wondering how many teams are trying to do way too many things at the same time like us.

[Solace]

Brandon just fixed this poll so it is no longer public. you can now vote without showing your true colors to the world.

[ahecht]

We need another option:

Small balls are nice, but we'll let our alliance partner handle them.

[pras870]

assuming your alliance partner can handle small balls

[Solace]

and considering that you're alliance partner is nonfunctional about 30% of the time, that basically means that you've sacrificed the small balls.

[Ken Loyd]

2 X 0 = 0

Small balls count!

Ken Loyd
Team 64

[Adam Y.]

Go ball hopper! Go ball hooper! Now if only the balls can get out then we would be set.

[Solace]

Originally Posted by Adam Y.

Go ball hopper! Go ball hooper! Now if only the balls can get out then we would be set.

for everybody who is tackling both the big ball and the bar while holding small balls internally, how are you getting everything to fit with the small balls needing so much space? how many balls are you planning on getting? ours can get five reliably, and 6 on a wing and a prayer.

[ngreen]

Originally Posted by Solace

for everybody who is tackling both the big ball and the bar while holding small balls internally, how are you getting everything to fit with the small balls needing so much space? how many balls are you planning on getting? ours can get five reliably, and 6 on a wing and a prayer.

It's possible. My team's problem was we built the robot first and now we are just starting to design it. I've got the plan if we've got the room. 15x15x15 5 to 6 high, that's a lot of room. I wish they were 9" balls.

[Levaman]

Few teams are actually ready to go to competition.10-12 maybe? Team 616 is still working out a few bugs and we'll be ready to test auton mode. Other than that, not much more we can do. We have the human player part good. The driver still is learning the controls but that's not unusual.

Everyone just needs to keep working.

[KenWittlief]

small balls are the deciding factor in this years game - put all of the ones from your side of the field in a capped goal and thats 240 points

if anything, hanging is a waste of time - while you are busy hanging yourself we will be taking the 2X ball off your goals and putting them on ours :c)

[Dorsk65]

I just have to say, our team hasn't really come up with a "solid" plan yet. As far as I have seen, our manipulator plan changes every day at the very least. But none of that really matters, as long as we have something that moves, which hopefully resembles a robot. And if it doesn't move, well thats when we get out the duct tape and the WD-40.

[Solace]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

small balls are the deciding factor in this years game - put all of the ones from your side of the field in a capped goal and thats 240 points

if anything, hanging is a waste of time - while you are busy hanging yourself we will be taking the 2X ball off your goals and putting them on ours :c)

unless, of course, one is capable of attaching to the bar and winching up in a very very short period of time...