[FTC]: Finals Round 3 - First Quad Robot Balance of the season

[Andrew Remmers]

Now wouldn't it be interesting if a bridge somehow snapped during competition?

[JohnFogarty]

soo...i'm still noticing no blowout scores....and from that video hardly any batons were scored...ok then.

[alphadog0309]

Hey team 110 foxes from NJ here! We had a successful triple item balance this weekend:


We are the huge robot on the right. This is the final game of the scrimmage and the bridge balanced literally two seconds before the end of the game and the drive team was absolutely ecstatic! we ended up winning the game 52 to 15 due to points scored off of autonomous and preloaded batons. Team 110 also won the Inspire award at the competition.

Drive team's reaction to the balance:

[BACONDUDE1902]

John_1102
umm just wait until 12/4. the highest score well be there.

[team F.T.C 4240]

Originally Posted by Madison

An unrelated question -- can you please describe why your wheel base is articulated such that it can "open" and "close"? My students saw this on a video and were confused as to its usefulness.

I saw that video too, my guess is so it can get to all 3 baton dispenser heights.

[Andrew Remmers]

Originally Posted by team F.T.C 4240

I saw that video too, my guess is so it can get to all 3 baton dispenser heights.

Am I the only one who can't find this video? I'd like to see it work

[team F.T.C 4240]

Originally Posted by Joyride_67_1902

Am I the only one who can't find this video? I'd like to see it work

I found it on Youtube, and it took me a long time to find it because i wasn't worded like you would think. I typed in "FTC CA 10/31/10" and i found it that way, hope that helped.

[Joachim]

Originally Posted by Joyride_67_1902

Am I the only one who can't find this video? I'd like to see it work

Search for "Piedmont Scotbotics"

[NalaTI]

An unrelated question -- can you please describe why your wheel base is articulated such that it can "open" and "close"? My students saw this on a video and were confused as to its usefulness.

The rules say you must start within an 18" cube... since the team wanted to be able to control the grab of batons, and a corner where they can store the goal, (they can push it over the mountain), they built their bot to expand. At full expansion it can go to 26" wide... Plus, it raises and lowers the center of gravity, and gives a very solid base to move the arm around.

Also... they thought it was cool.

The arm they have on the robot for that tournament (where the video is) is not the one they will be using at NorCal state in January... it was way too slow and not accurate enough. That's why they really didn't try to score.

They also did not have any real autonomous ready at the 10/31 tournament. That won't be the case by January...

[normalmutant]

Originally Posted by NalaTI

Also... they thought it was cool.

Yes. Coolness is a must.