pic: Capping a Robot

[theory6]

Originally Posted by JosephM

This was the talk of our meeting. This is briliant strategy and a great example of using the field to your advantage. Question: was the bot capped during auton or after?

during auton mode the 67 robot pushed the mobile goal with the multiplier towards our robot standing underneath the ball drop. Right after auton mode all 67 had to do was use their arm, pick up the multiplier and drop it in our net. Seconds later the 5 point balls dropped keeping the big multiplier ball stuck inside the robot. Our driver tried to bounce the big ball out of the net but to no avail. All I can say was that this was an amazing strategy and a great use of field objects... Hopefully we can incorporate something to our robot to counter act this strategy... but i wont be too sure...

great job team 67

[BoyWithCape195]

Originally Posted by Crazy_Ed

At the Orlando regional team 1083 (i think) had a omni-wheeled cilinder that could run over a ball and pick it up into a chute. It was amazingly simple but worked every time. Team Combat (don't know the num) did something similar by unfolding a large piece of material and waiting under the ball drop. They caught almost every ball every time but had trouble feeding them to the HP.

The problem of feeding the balls to the human player was a big factor in the discouraging the use of this strategy to many teams. It was just very difficult to do and, most of the time, took the weight or time a team didnt have. I commend the teams that used that strategy, becasue it takes many hours to come out with an idea that gets the balls out everytime.