Newton Discussion

[aallen88]

Hey fellow Newton teams! Can't wait to see you all in a week!

If you get the chance can you answer the following questions:

1. Team name and number
2. Shooter/Dumper
3. How many balls can you approx. hold?
4. Ramp capabilities?
5. Effective autonomous Mode(s)?
6. Speed/Power/Maneuverability
7. Average scoring?
If shooter:
8. Shooter location
9. Camera/Manual
10. Post a picture of the robot if you can!

11. Are you a ground or human loader?

For example:

1. MORT Team 11
2. Shooter
3. 12 balls
4. Depends on ramp conditions
5. Yes, drives forward and shoots 10 balls in the 3-pt goal effectively
6. Average speed and power but not traction
7. Around 15-20 shots scored. Avg pts per match: 26
8. Top
9. Both
10. Posted below

11. We are a ground loader

Thanks so much teams! Good luck in ATLANTA.

[aallen88]

Here's our robot

[Imajie]

1. CyberKnights Team 195
2. Dumper
3. 30+ easily
4. We can climb the ramp relatively easily
5. Yes. a) Drives forward and scores 10 in corner goal.
b) "Dynamic Defense"
6. Good speed and power
7. Depends on if we play more defensively or not. Can score a full load in under 10 sec.

Here is the picture I posted earlier.

Can reload from ground or human player.

[379Robocat]

1. The Robocats Team 379
2. Dumper/defensive
3. 20-25
4. Easily
5. Effectively drives to side goal and dumps 10, If need to zoom across floor to block shooter or other dumper we will.
6. 2 spd. trans. w/ pneumatic shifter, custom built. High spd 13.5 ft/sec, Low 4.5 ft/sec. Very powerful, fast and reliable.
7.we are able to score from 40-50 ourselves. (10 auto + winning auto =20, Driving around picking up 20-25 balls usually 2 trips = 40-45, then on ramp for bonus 5 = 45-50. Our average scores usually 30-40.

Our Robot posted from the other page. good Luck everyone can't wait to see everyone down there

[Logan Byers]

1. Westside Boiler Invasion team 461
2. Primarily Shooter, but can Dump
3. can hold 10-11 at one time.
4. Working on wheelie-bars. Needed help w/o wheelie-bars.
5. No...
6. 6-7 ft/sec speed. Crab drive = maneuverable
7. 30-40 points individually
If shooter:
8. high on the robot
9. Working on camera... manual at the moment
10. see my earlier post.

[Bharat Nain]

1. Team name and number: Raider Robotix, Team 25.
2. Shooter/Dumper: Shooter
3. How many balls can you approx. hold? 12
4. Ramp capabilities? Sure.
5. Effective autonomous Mode(s)? Sometimes.
6. Speed/Power/Maneuverability. Yeah, mostly.
7. Average scoring? 40-50 points
If shooter:
8. Shooter location: On the robot
9. Camera/Manual: Both
10. Post a picture of the robot if you can!: http://www.raiderrobotix.org/robots/2006.jpg

[Cyberguy34000]

1. Team name and number: Rocky Mountain Robotics, 662
2. Shooter/Dumper: Dumper
3. How many balls can you approx. hold? 40+
4. Ramp capabilities? Very Effective, (we've parked sideways)
5. Effective autonomous Mode(s) N/A
6. Speed/Power/Maneuverability. Very powerful pusher (we've pushed robots sideways across the field), above average speed, and fairly good manuverability.
7. Average scoring? 20-40 points (Depends on whether we are playing defensive with our pushing power or not.)

10. Post a picture of the robot if you can!:Our Robot

If you have any other questions about our bot just e-mail me.

Good luck to all of the teams in Newton!

[VEN]

1. Team name and number ------------- 1281 Mustang Robotics
2. Shooter/Dumper -------------- Can Shoot, can't dump, human loaded
3. How many balls can you approx. hold?------------ 15
4. Ramp capabilities? will get on the ramp everytime..can help others on the ramp, this has been tested
5. Effective autonomous Mode(s)? ---------- i believe as of tonight or tomorrow, 4 auto codes
6. Speed/Power/Maneuverability ----- speed, fast, power, we won the waterloo regional by playing pure defense, lots of pushing power, turns on the spot
7. Average scoring? depends, we normaly played defense but i think we can score minimum 12 points
If shooter:
8. Shooter location ---------- inside the robot well protected
9. Camera/Manual ----------------- both...one button push and the camera finds the target and adjusts the whole robot to shooting position (kind of like auto mode)
10. Post a picture of the robot if you can!

GOOD LUCK ALL AND SEE YOU SOON..I only have about 20 teams to do research on

[JoeXIII'007]

Originally Posted by aallen88

1. Team name and number
2. Shooter/Dumper
3. How many balls can you approx. hold?
4. Ramp capabilities?
5. Effective autonomous Mode(s)?
6. Speed/Power/Maneuverability
7. Average scoring?
If shooter:
8. Shooter location
9. Camera/Manual
10. Post a picture of the robot if you can!

1. Flyers; 66
2. Shooter hi and lo for both goals
3. Ehhh... 10-15
4. Yup
5. Yup, fixed it at WMR
6. Mediocre/Very/turns sort of rough (Can push robots around really nice)
7. At LEAST 30 pts a round, we will do more at nats
8. Variable
9. Camera && Manual
10. goto http://www.team66.com got photo album at the top menu, and look at the robot pics section. They're at the bottom.

[dan 322]

First off, thanks for all the compliments to our bot this year on the forum, thats great.

1. Team name and number - 322
2. Shooter/Dumper - Dumper
3. How many balls can you approx. hold? - 50+
4. Ramp capabilities? 100% with ease
5. Effective autonomous Mode(s)? Dump 10 everytime from any three starting spots, If a shooter needs spot one or two, we have delay that let's the shooter move to go shoot, then we dump. We scored 10 pts in Auto all matchs last regional. Also shooter blocking modes
6. Speed/Power/Maneuverability - Most say it's the fastest and most mobile bot this year. 4 motor, 4 wheel drive allowed us to push bots around and dead bots onto the ramp
7. Average scoring? 10 pts. always in auto, 30+ dumping and 5 pts. for ramp
8. Shooter location - nota
9. Camera/Manual - nota
10. Post a picture of the robot if you can! - see www.fireteam.org

Other notables - #1 seed at Western Regional, 2006 Motorola Quality award, two weeks later 2006 GM industrial design winners.

-basically un-tippable
-spare part for every robot detail
-lowest center of gravity I've seen yet
-8 different auto modes, including defensive ones

Hopefully this helps, email with further questions.....thanks.

[AcesPease]

1. Team name and number: Aces High 176
2. Shooter/Dumper: Both
3. How many balls can you approx. hold? 20
4. Ramp capabilities? Yes
5. Effective autonomous Mode(s)? Yes, all 10 in corner + a 3 pt program and others
6. Speed/Power/Maneuverability: good (very experienced driver)
7. Average scoring? 30
If shooter:
8. Shooter location: High with turret and tilt
9. Camera/Manual: both
10. Post a picture of the robot if you can! Here is Pokerface without bumpers, from the shooter side
11. Reload Method: extra wide floor loading. Can HP load if needed.

[rees2001]

Originally Posted by aallen88

If you get the chance can you answer the following questions:

1. Team name and number
2. Shooter/Dumper
3. How many balls can you approx. hold?
4. Ramp capabilities?
5. Effective autonomous Mode(s)?
6. Speed/Power/Maneuverability
7. Average scoring?
If shooter:
8. Shooter location
9. Camera/Manual
10. Post a picture of the robot if you can!

Do you think we could add a re-load part
11. Re-load Floor/HP/none?

might be helpful. If everyone just edits their posts it would save some length of this thread.

[aallen88]

Originally Posted by rees2001

Do you think we could add a re-load part
11. Re-load Floor/HP/none?

might be helpful. If everyone just edits their posts it would save some length of this thread.

After I posted I thought of that question, but then just decided that you can pretty much figure that out from the picture of the team's robot, but if anyone would like to go back and add that...I won't argue!!!

[379Robocat]

Do you think we could add a re-load part

Just in case anyone wants to know, Team 379 loads from the floor. We prefer to load from the floor but if there is a chance that there aren't any balls on the floor then we human load. We don't like to human load but like I said there were some matches where we had all the balls in our hopper and none on the floor so we had to human load. If anyone has any questions about our robot or our team you are all welcome to PM me or e-mail me at: PJRoman2004@aol.com

[Ken Streeter]

We're glad to provide answers to the scouting questions from MORT Team 11, but you may prefer to simply watch Team 1519's robot, "Sergeant York" in action: http://www.mechanicalmayhem.org/vide...Video-2006.mov

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1. Mechanical Mayhem, Team 1519
2. Shooter
3. Hopper and belt train hold up to 20 balls
4. Ramp defender
5. Autonomous Mode -- watch the video...
6. Speed/Power/Maneuverability -- view the video to see us push...
7. Average scoring: In GSR elimination rounds, 7 balls in autonomous; rest of match varies depending upon how much defense we played

If shooter:
8. Shooter is at top of robot
9. Camera-controlled, with manual override available if needed
10. Videos at http://www.mechanicalmayhem.org/teamvideos.asp

11. Ground loader