double keeper-- yes

[Uberbots]

That was amazing. I hate you.... in a graciously professional sort of way.
you guys deserve a snickers bar for that. absolutely amazing.

I wish our robot were legally capable of doing something like this. but... we have a frontload system which makes it impossible to do it quickly

[smurfgirl]

Originally Posted by Uberbots

That was amazing. I hate you.... in a graciously professional sort of way.
you guys deserve a snickers bar for that. absolutely amazing.

I wish our robot were legally capable of doing something like this. but... we have a frontload system which makes it impossible to do it quickly

Maybe if you had written a better autonomous mode... (kidding! Don't explode at me!)

Besides, we have a slightly less cool, but still pretty neat trick. We have that one auto mode setting where we drive around to the other side of the rack and score a keeper over there.

[FoleyEngineer]

Hiya Smurfgirl,

We have a bank of switches that let us pick up to 27 auton patterns. The drive to the other side and score there (high,med,low) was one of them, but we didn't run it in competition for a few reasons. One, by the time we got there, the opponent could easily have already put one on there. Two, we could run into an opponent scoring on a "side" spider and never get there. Three, we could run head-on into an opponent running a defensive pattern (at full speed) and do some serious damage. Overall, we figured it wasn't worth it, but it sure is a cool thing to do! Did you ever get it to go? How often did it get there and score in time? Did you ever run into the opponents?

[Nuttyman54]

I know 1124 ran their backside keeper successfully in a BattleCry 8 practice match. That was amazing to watch!

[Uberbots]

Originally Posted by FoleyEngineer

Hiya Smurfgirl,

We have a bank of switches that let us pick up to 27 auton patterns. The drive to the other side and score there (high,med,low) was one of them, but we didn't run it in competition for a few reasons. One, by the time we got there, the opponent could easily have already put one on there. Two, we could run into an opponent scoring on a "side" spider and never get there. Three, we could run head-on into an opponent running a defensive pattern (at full speed) and do some serious damage. Overall, we figured it wasn't worth it, but it sure is a cool thing to do! Did you ever get it to go? How often did it get there and score in time? Did you ever run into the opponents?

Yeah we did get it to go- about 12 times in practice and once in pseudo competition. As Nutty Said, we did get it to run during a practice at battlecry.

We did it by charging backwards at full speed for 5 seconds, using a drive straight routine that was corrected by the Gyro. (we usually used that for climbing ramps). The routine then ran normally to cap with the desired 8 second cap.

We wanted to use it at battle cry to take advantage of the keeper rule; 3 keepers on the opponent's side would not only break their row but cause a more serious vision impediment to the other team. We ended up not using it, however, because the risk of damage was high, we would start on a side with potentially a lot of defense, the front side autonomous was much more consistent, and the backside autonomous had a failure rate of 7 in 10 trials during practice for unknown reasons.

I would have to say, though, that our coolest trick was the ability to throw a ringer onto the rack. we usually could get a good 2 to 3 yards on that ringer.

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by FoleyEngineer

Hiya Smurfgirl,

We have a bank of switches that let us pick up to 27 auton patterns. The drive to the other side and score there (high,med,low) was one of them, but we didn't run it in competition for a few reasons. One, by the time we got there, the opponent could easily have already put one on there. Two, we could run into an opponent scoring on a "side" spider and never get there. Three, we could run head-on into an opponent running a defensive pattern (at full speed) and do some serious damage. Overall, we figured it wasn't worth it, but it sure is a cool thing to do! Did you ever get it to go? How often did it get there and score in time? Did you ever run into the opponents?

We ran a similar mode, successfully in a match at PARC X and in a few practice matches at BoB. It was a blast to watch, especially if you kept an eye on our programming team when it happened. We were wary of trying it in many matches for the same reason you were, and in the match at PARC, we narrowly missed an opposing robot headed in the opposite direction. The video's on YouTube somewhere, I believe.

[Nawaid Ladak]

from one of the videos i saw, it looked like it was going for the trifecta, am i correct on this?

Great job 910 and congratulations