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[samir13k]

The hockey stick roll cage is a sweet idea, but dont you lose the functionality of going under the tunnel? or was it never intended to go under? and does it go over?... honestly from what i've seen, if a team goes over, it will most likely go over sideways. and i honestly think the CG is low enough on most bots to not roll easily if at all. but at the same time this is FIRST, we've defied physics before any vid of rolling the bot over the hockey sticks?

[GaryVoshol]

OK, so another Canadian team in Vancouver knows how to use hockey sticks. Congrats.

[dtengineering]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

OK, so another Canadian team in Vancouver knows how to use hockey sticks. Congrats.

Phew. That was close.

But the celebration going on in town right now is amazing. Wish we could people as excited about robots in this part of the world. Heck, wish we could get them 0.1% as excited.

Jason

Edit: Oh, yes... we've been back and forth over the bump several times with no problems, and have a practice robot and three weeks to refine our technique before the Seattle tournament. The sticks actually make it impossible for us to roll as our centre of gravity is just too low... unless we completely flip on to our top. With the sticks we can't do that. An end-over-end flip, is a possible, but unlikely method of leaving us turtled... and if we need to prevent that we can just bolt a "roll bar" on to the front, so we can't tip that way, either.

Should we want to go under the tunnel, the sticks remove with four bolts, but honestly, at this point the bump holds little fear for our 'bot.