Team 25 2008 Unveiling

[James1902]

BALLER!!!!!!

[Danny McC]

Can't wait to see that in actions over the next three days.

[Tottanka]

I have to say, that iv'e been waiting for more.
I know i haveseen nothin yet, but please, 25 members, correct me if i'm wrong.

Do you have to push the ball against a wall in order to pick it up?

(that's the only con i see by the way)

pros:
shoots from up high - hard to block.
cool all in 1 action to hurdle.
CAN PLACE BALL ON OVERPASS!!!OMG!!!

[Andrew Morris]

Nice hurdle on the move and placing the ball.
Can't wait to see it at Atlanta.

[=Martin=Taylor=]

Is that really how it picks up the ball? By ramming it into the wall? Hmmm.... I'm not sure that's the best idea but we shall see...

As for the hurdling part. AWESOME! That's pretty flippin fast!

[Branden Ghena]

It shoots really high too. You generally won't have another trackball on top of the overpass to go over.

Does the robot have to stop while it shoots the ball, or was that just for effect?

[thefro526]

Nice robot once again!!! We'll have to see how it performs in NJ though. Lol your '06 bot is still my favorite robot ever.

[AJ R]

I like the way they pick up the ball. It doesn't require a person to time when to close a gripper. It is also nice and simple not requiring any extra motors. I thought about a grabbing mechanism that would need to use a wall kinda of like theirs, but never really pushed it or just didn't bring it up.

[cziggy343]

another great robot from 25! i love that ya'll can throw over other balls... its a nifty ability to have

[Tetraman]

I kinda got it right

[hipsterjr]

Awesome lifter/launcher. The only thing I question is how well does it pick up? All you showed was the prototype picking. Besides that, another amazing bot. Good luck, we'll be watching.

[Kristian Calhoun]

A lot of the questions are pretty similar, so I'm going to group together the answers.

Regarding obtaining the ball:
Yes, we pick up the ball by pushing it up against an obstacle. The practice segment at the beginning of the video was just sloppy driving . Our drivers have had some practice since then.

Hurdling:
The tipping seen in the video was a result of the driver making a hard stop. Our speed controls have been modified, and the entire launch process is activated by a single button press by our driver. This allows for one fluid motion, as Tottanka mentioned.

Placing the ball:
This is accomplished by regulating the mast speed on our "magic - more magic" dial.

[Wayne C.]

the repeated movies were practice rounds 1-2-3-4 etc.

yes- we pick up from pushing into an object- and we are always 4-6 ft from something. Don't be disappoiinted because we aren't. There is less to break and I am sure we will see arms and fingers bending all over the place in this game. Also- it allows all our rookie partners to load us from behind and keep going. We practiced with push bots running laps and feeding balls into the quadrant and easily hurdled 5 in 2 minutes. In the practice rounds we were trying to shoot the ball into the practice base or catch it on the bounce. It kind of works- for the off season fun!

In practice we have gotten up to 7 hurdles in a 2 minute round. Obviously that will be less in real life.

Our auto lap is 10 secs and on a good run we make 1.5 laps plus knocking 2 balls off.

This is the simplest robot we have made in a long time- but also one of the most effective. See you all on the floor.

WC

[Ryan Dognaux]

Great hurdling, but I will echo what others have said, I worry about your ability to acquire the trackballs. Someone could pretty easily push the ball out of the way while you're trying to push it into a wall / an object. That being said, the hurdling device is slick and being able to do that without stopping at the overpass will be a huge advantage.

[Uberbots]

cant wait to see you guys at CT
...dont dominate too much (=