REWARD OFFERED: A CAPPED VISION TETRA ON THE CENTER FIELD GOAL

[Wayne C.]

FIRST- congratulations to team 66 for finding the vision tetra and capping on the side goal. It is a great accomplishment. Great job....


Ok- Now do it on the CENTER GOAL....

you know the BIG one ?

I know- I know- You all are just holding off so that SieH2OBots can do it at NJ, our home regional. That's so nice of all of you. True GP.

I think I'll pack the TIKI with our pit stuff and bring it to our regionals starting with NJ this week. Then at least it can SEE some other teams.....

Two weeks down- close but no cigar.



WC

[Greg Marra]

We got our camera working the last two matches. The robot drove to the tetras, but something wasn't working right so it stopped autonomous to avoid breaking things. (We have error checking code to avoid burning the FPs).

Maybe in Philly?

[team66t-money]

First off from being a member of team66 thanks to all with the support for our alliance during the semi finals and finals we went 6-0 no loses it was so great and congrats to all who received a award today at glr. thanks to 67,68 we were a great alliance also we did cap 3 times in practice on Thursday and once today in the finals i know ya said close isn't good enough but it wasn't really on all the way but it was on (center) our main problem was they changed the camera code on us and decided not to tell us but before the semi finals we figured it out but once again we came this close () from getting the center all the way on so far i think we are the only ones to even place a tetra on any goal if not please pm me i would love to find out who else figured it out we spent 3 weeks doing (not easy what so ever) but hey yeah once again thanks to all for all the support.

[ldeffenb]

Originally Posted by team66t-money

so far i think we are the only ones to even place a tetra on any goal if not please pm me i would love to find out who else figured it out we spent 3 weeks doing (not easy what so ever) but hey yeah once again thanks to all for all the support.

Team 386 came really really close to doing the center numerous times at the Central Florida Regionals, but always had something come up. We threw the initial tetra into the mix, and almost put *BOTH* of them on in auto. We've got the moves, and with a new tilt sprocket and replaced lift motor, it just could happen the first time for us in Atlanta.

I'll be scaring up some video of how close we came (man, driving 22 feet and ending where you want it is nigh on impossible!) so watch this space.

Lynn (D) - Team Voltage 386 Software & Coach

[Shu Song]

w00t!

congratz to team 66!

Does anyone have this on video? I'd love to see it.

[Brandon Holley]

Wayne - watch for team 11 at NJ

[JonBell]

Originally Posted by team66t-money

First off from being a member of team66 thanks to all with the support for our alliance during the semi finals and finals we went 6-0 no loses it was so great and congrats to all who received a award today at glr. thanks to 67,68 we were a great alliance also we did cap 3 times in practice on Thursday and once today in the finals i know ya said close isn't good enough but it wasn't really on all the way but it was on (center) our main problem was they changed the camera code on us and decided not to tell us but before the semi finals we figured it out but once again we came this close () from getting the center all the way on so far i think we are the only ones to even place a tetra on any goal if not please pm me i would love to find out who else figured it out we spent 3 weeks doing (not easy what so ever) but hey yeah once again thanks to all for all the support.

Not quite using the vision tetras, but...
At our regional, two teams (Elm City and Shelton) had "lifter" bots (one had a scissor lift, the other just had a long pivoting platform). They found that if they could start with the extra tetra (or whatever it's called), they could simply orient themselves towards the side goal, and then in autonomous they just had to push it on to the goal. If they brought it down with enough force it would also knock off the hanging tetra (a 4 point play!), and this worked pretty much every time.

Our bot uses a fairly inarticulate arm, so it wouldn't be very feasible for us to do a similar move, but instead we just always start facing the side, and can always knock down the hanging tetra for 1 point. It probably wouldn't be much harder to pick it up after we knocked it down, back up, and place it back on the side goal, all using dead reckoning. I didn't think of this until we were in the semi-finals though, so I didn't have time to try it at our regional.

I didn't watch all of the matches, so I can't say that no one capped the vision tetras, but 230 (shelton) and elm-city were both pretty sweet with their 4 point plays.

So the moral of the story?
Perhaps dead reckoning and using the hanging tetras would be easier than relying on the camera?