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

[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?