a bunch of ball II

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by pyro20911d

Do you think people are being untruthful when they claim that their bot can pick up anywhere from 6-25 balls?

Do you mean at once? Because a "traditional" mechanism that can pick up six balls at a time would have to be at least 42 inches wide, ^{(6 balls x 7 inches per ball)} and a mechanism that can pick up 25 balls at once would have to be 175 inches wide, ^{(25 balls x 7 inches per ball)} which is almost three times the maximum allowable width of a FRC robot this year.


Are they being truthful? Maybe.

Are they joking? Maybe.

Can we tell these two apart from bytes of data surging across the Internet? Sometimes.

Should we give people the benefit of a doubt until evidence can substantiate/demote people's claims? Yes.


Instead of complaining about people's robot claims, let's just wait until the regionals come around and then let results speak for themselves. For all we know, some of these claims may pan out and actually be truthful.


But then again, we have yet to see Beatty or Wildstang's 2006 robots. For all we know, Beatty may have invented some crazy infinite improbability vortex that can suck up all 80 balls and simultanously score them all into the center goal in autonomous, without breaking the 12 m/s rule.