BEST Tetra Grabber

[Airforce1000]

Originally Posted by JulieB

1) 1414
2) 1461 i think is saw on Nasa Tv at las vegas
3) 1414

You weren't watching the right team at Vegas man. Hands down, we have one of the best grippers in the nation. Our locks on so we can't drop it or get stolen from us. We have a smooth release of it. We can cap the center goal from the auto-loading station in under 10 seconds. Our best time was something like 8.65.


Also, what some people don't realize, is that any robot that can carry more then 1 tetra at a time is vulnerable. 1641, who was the Mojave robotics team at Vegas was easily stopped. Their robot looked like Waldo. I saw them flip once while they were a good 15 feet up. Must've hurt. :\

1266, the Devil Duckies. They flipped twice at Vegas and they can cap 4 tetras at a time, possibly more. And they don't get that high. They stay at their box position the entire match. All you gotta do is hit them once or twice when they go to cap and they'll miss. Sometime fall if they catch the bar just right. There is strategy to take any team down. Everyone has a week point. You just have to find it. If you want a picture of our claw, go to www.team987.com and search in the 2005 photo albums. You'll see what I mean. We also had the most capped per round in Vegas. Andy Baker said we were at a disadvantage as we were essentially the best robot there and everyone was watching out for us in the elimination rounds. If it was at the boilermaker or some harder regional, we would've done better because we wouldn't have been so watched out for there.

I know you said you couldn't nominate your own team, so I'll nominate 294 as a unique grabber. Held on tight to that puppy.