Robot ideas

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Originally Posted by Rick TYler

This is going to be so much fun this year! Since I'm not on an FRC team right now, I can speculate wildly without having to worry about giving up any Top Sekrits.

RobotAddict and I were talking about the most radical idea we could think of and came up with the following.

* Ignore the ringers. Let your alliance partners do that.
* Build a 12-inch-tall, maximum-weight bot with multiple-speed transmissions
* During most of the match, play defense
* At the end, deploy pneumatic forklifts off both sides of your bot, and lift BOTH of your alliance partners 12" off the ground

Would you pick an alliance partner that had lifting as its only non-defensive contribution?

We considered this. Every year there are teams that are picked for defensive alone. This idea is kinda nice since you can run defense or could also serve as a ring runner during the match-basically carry and deliver the rings to your alliance partners, this might be useful if you wanted to score on the rack side away from you. The problem with this type of robot is you are kinda screwed if the bots can't get back in enough time, for example they are broken and in pieces.