hurdler or herder?

[mik3goodwin]

Some of the members on my team have thought about making a small r/c car seeing as it would be fast and light. the simple design would allow us to focus on increasing the speed of the robot and not so much on making a complex mechanism to hurdle the ball. another pro to this design would be that we could score many points in hybrid mode without having to worry about a bulky arm getting in the way.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Donut

Look at video from 2004 of robots that just try to herd using little sticks that poke off the robot and you'll see numerous robots riding up over the balls,...

I don't expect that to be a problem with the Overdrive trackballs.

[Donut]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

I don't expect that to be a problem with the Overdrive trackballs.

Maybe not riding over, but getting wedged on it may be an issue. If a robot DOES manage to drive all the way over a trackball, that's a match I want to watch.