Any funny stories during the season?

[ALTrammell818]

Originally Posted by Bjenks548

From what i heard, your robot kicking at full power will never end up on the field lol

This is very true, even with the current limits in our code, full power kicking will always either bounce very hard off the wall or bounce right over it.

Our autonomous is worse though. Our coding in Auton winds the kicker longer. If we forget to dial down before the match it always ends up kicking out of the field!

Twisting a garage door spring was a genius idea. Sadly I am not sure who actually came up with the idea. The electromagnet is pretty cool too. So much more fun than pneumatics!

Dan Kimura (field manager at Wayne State and programmer for 469) told us that if we could kick over the driver station and through one of the gym doors we would get bonus points. Our driver was so infinitely tempted to try.

Apparently we are going to show off our robot at a couple of high schools in our area. We are currently planning to find out the exact power we need to kick into the baskets from about half court!