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Re: pic: Grant Drives Tumbleweed

what could only make this better would be if 148 drivers drove 1114 and 1114 drivers drove 217 robot... now that would be interesting.
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Re: pic: Grant Drives Tumbleweed

This was definitely one of my favorite moments this year. Thank you John and Parker for the opportunity, and 148 for building such a sweet robot.

I was kinda nervous going into it, I kept bugging John "so how do you drive it.. how does it work.." His response was "it will take me a minute to describe how it works, but it will probably take you the whole match to really figure out how it drives." Which was completely true. I have a huuge new respect for Parker, driving this little thing is extreemely difficult. It took me probably half the match to get it around the track consistently, and probably the rest of it to figure out how to make slight adjustments to avoid traffic. The defensive and evasive maneuvers that he pulls off are just beyond my comprehension.

Let me give a few insights.
- If you hit a wall, you're out for like 5 seconds. it messes up the gyro or something and the robot gets confused and seems to always choose "drive hard into the wall"
- If you stop for even a second, good luck reorienting yourself and figuring out which way is forward. When they say there is no front, they really mean it.
- Making turns in a precise direction is pretty much a guessing game because of the way that they have it turn (at least, it felt like it to me). Doing little juke maneuvers and stuff is wayyy more difficult than with a tank steer (or even a conventional swerve drive)


Sweet robot though. Sorry again that your matches with our bot didn't go so well (tipped over in hybrid, then the arms broke [not his fault] so he never got the chance to hurdle)
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Re: pic: Grant Drives Tumbleweed

Boy can't I wait to get back to joysticks after this year!

Grant, you did amazingly well for the first time driving. Some of our mentors try to drive it for a few minutes and end up giving up. I can't count how long it took me to get consistent. Unfortunately we weren't up to full throttle mechanically at Atlanta, and we may have had you guys' heart rates a bit higher, but everything fell together and worked out great. She'll be even better for IRI. [Hehehe...]

Note to future ThunderChickens, don't let me near your controls. I jinx your robot. Lol. I had fun the match I did get to drive. Leila's a smooth robot that's very interesting to drive. Made me look forward to next year and maybe six-wheels being underneath the 148 machine instead of three.
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