Does anyone else NOT use a long arm to place a tetra on top of the Goal?

[mad_cloversc]

I'm just curious: All the pictures I'm seeing are of a long arm which is used to place the tetra directly on top of the goal. My team's not doing that (and unfortunatly I don't have any pictures), we are sortof pushing it over the goal so that it falls into place. See you at the Duluth competition!

[Tytus Gerrish]

we don't. We just have a pvc Pitchfork

[Kims Robot]

East High School is using a flipper... check out this photo from our scrimmage:

http://rollingthunder.smugmug.com/ga...730/2/16542961

They are the purple one in the center.

[Greg Marra]

Team 230 has an absolutely sweet flipping mechanism. photos

[bradleym1559]

Team 1559 is using an arm thats only about 36 inches long. We have an elevator type lifting mechanism. It is made specifically for the autoloading station.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Cyber Blue uses a lifting mechanism and a rather short arm to put tetras ontop of the goal.

See here - http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=35182

[Corey Balint]

A rookie team that came to our practice, 1688, was a very impressive fast little bot with a flipping mechanism that tossed the tetra into the goal.

[brownster]

Our teams using a scissor lift instead of an arm..theres piscs here at

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...489#post345489

But i'd sure love to know what you made ur flipper outta 230..looks similar to our scissors

[Steve Yasick]

Team 85 has a short arm and 2 loaders that work just like a candy machine! We will see you at GLR. You can see at picture in the robot showcase.

Take care

[Joe Matt]

We have a tall bot with a short arm, that helps with the complexity and the weight.

[Stephen Kowski]

we have an elevator system and then a turreting arm that can hold two tetras at a time....http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...&quiet=Verbose

[DaBruteForceGuy]

though we do have a very large arm, technically it is simply a lift. All of the three arms are connected via a chain linkage and reduction off of a single van-door motor. This causes the third arm/end effector to stay level with the ground at all times; perfectly and constantly in line with the front of the robot.

[sirbleedsalot]

Ours takes tetras from the human player and with one air cylinder flips them on the goal.

[Dorienne]

We have a cool accordion kind of thing. It has an angled panel with a flap to hold the tetra on, a cylinder type attachment picks up the tetra, and puts it on the goal. =) It's funky. If you have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about, here's a picture of Moonraker.

[Ben Lauer]

Telescoping units, two of them. I am not a member of the team anymore, but i still follow the team.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ght=tower+1018