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Re: Support Robot Concept

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It might be... but if you can't pick them up off the floor, you're stuck driving to the other side to get game pieces every single time. That's a pretty big handicap to have, considering past experiences of game pieces littering the floor.
I'm not defending or advocating the decision to not have the ability to pick up off of the floor, but just pointing out it's not a feature to be taken for granted. If you're going to design your whole robot and strategy around having partners who can pick up off the floor, you better be sure that there are plenty of robots who are going to be able to acquire tubes on the floor.

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Is there a distinct advantage to this more than just having the feeder throw the tubes over the wall instead of putting them through the slot?



I've heard credible reports of being able to reach half-field, and that's without much practice.

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Tubes are open targets for both alliances at half-field. They aren't if they're in the scoring area.
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Re: Support Robot Concept

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Tubes are open targets for both alliances at half-field. They aren't if they're in the scoring area.
Understood, I guess this was just me being skeptical that something as aerodynamically unstable and with as low relative inertial as the innertubes would be able to be aimed well enough to actually land and stay in the scoring zone with any reasonable reliability. Should probably keep my comments to myself until I (or someone else) actually attempts this, though.

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Re: Support Robot Concept

now that is a very good point. but I do feel that teams will be able to pick up off of the floor. The 100% bumper rule makes this difficult though.
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Re: Support Robot Concept

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now that is a very good point. but I do feel that teams will be able to pick up off of the floor. The 100% bumper rule makes this difficult though.
I will be shocked if the majority of robots are unable to pick up tubes from the floor, even with the 100% bumper and 60" cylinder rules.
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