What is the hardest (yet possible) task in this year's game?

[Jon K.]

Originally Posted by Donut

To change some of my last post, the shot from behind half-court would not be required to use the camera, because I don't know if it has enough range to see the target (accurately) from long distances.

According to one of the people from IFI up at the Kickoff in Manchester New Hampshire, the camera should be able to see full field, like from one set of goals to the other.

[KenWittlief]

I think the pasty resistance for this game will be a bot that continuously tracks the goal with its launcher

and IF the goal is within range AND IF a ball is in the bot, it fires all by itself

this means all the driver has to do is drive the bot over balls to pick them up, then drive the bot within range of the goal. The bot does the rest.

If it picks up balls while its in range of the goal it fires them immediately.

That would be awesome

but not easy!

[Zach Purser]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

We also tried a garbage can Airzooka, but it didn't provide enough air power to reasonably and acurately push a ball

Does anyone else find it disturbing that they are suddenly sold out?

[Sachiel7]

I think the pasty resistance for this game will be a bot that continuously tracks the goal with its launcher
and IF the goal is within range AND IF a ball is in the bot, it fires all by itself
this means all the driver has to do is drive the bot over balls to pick them up, then drive the bot within range of the goal. The bot does the rest.
If it picks up balls while its in range of the goal it fires them immediately.
That would be awesome
but not easy!

We're working on it...

[Barry Bonzack]

What about making all 10 shots in autonomous mode without leaving the robot's starting square?



I overheard Dean telling Woodie what two mentors were discussing at kickoff...

"Okay, I'll build a robot that your robot can drive up on, and you can score all the balls into the center goal without going over the 60'' mark."

Sounds quite infeasible, and this would only work if one of the two teams were choosing alliances.

[geeknerd99]

Originally Posted by ngreen

I'd be interested to see a balled launched and then knocked out of the air by the opponents ball, intentionally.

If a team could figure out Star Wars I would be pretty impressed.

The one ball that came in our kit was, of all colors, "vision-tetra green" (that's what we call anything of that color). Ironically, at kickoff, one of our mentors was joking about tracking the balls and shooting them down using the camera. We might mess around with it if we somehow find some free time during build season.

[Donut]

I don't know how quickly you could shoot balls, it really depends on the launcher you used, and how quickly you could feed balls to it. I think it's possible to get all 10 balls from 1 robot in the center, I think it would be difficult to get balls from multiple robots into that center goal. You would have to work an autonomous with them so that one would fire right after the other ended, or so the balls would "alternate" landing in the goal.

Since we're combining auton and normal challenges, here; a robot that can score all 10 balls into the center in autonomous (without dead reckoning), and that can shoot a ball into the center goal while moving from behind the half-court line during human controlled mode. I've calculated that a shooter at the 5' height limit firing balls at 12 m/s at a 45 degree angle could hit the target from roughly 44', neglecting resistance forces. Air resistance will decrease this, but I think you won't lose 10' due to it, so a half-court shot is do-able.

For more difficulty, it should be able to make a certain percentage of its shots as well.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Andrew Blair

Now, the challenge assumes that you SHOOT the balls in 7 seconds, so you get three second grace period to find and lock onto the target. Sounds pretty possible to me, especially if you did it without moving from your starting position.

Why would you need to "find and lock onto your target" at match start? All distances and angles are perfectly known to you, unless you had a launcher tilt system that couldn't hold its preset angle when its drive motor was disabled.

If you had a repeatable method of setting your robot's orientation and launcher tilt angle in the starting box, I imagine your only limitation would be the time it takes to spin up your launcher to launch velocity.

[Amisca]

I would say the challenge should be to be able to put all ten balls in the center goal and make pizza for everyone (or some kind of food).

[ICE MAN]

Originally Posted by Wayne C.

Well, last season we offered the Chester Challenge Tiki to the first team that capped the center goal with the vision tetra in autonomous mode.

And nobody could do it.......

So we are looking for the new 2006 Chester Challenge.

And we ask- what is the hardest (yet possible) task in this year's game?

I'll announce the parameters of the Challenge on Saturday. I have some evil ideas. But you might have something even better.


WC

(from your evil friends at team 25)

TO shoot the 10 allowed balls at the beginning of the autonomous period all in the center goal in the allowed time limit.

[bluisnake]

Get most points in both center and corner goals. don't think anyone can multitask that much