pic: Team 341 presents Miss Daisy XI

[Lil' Lavery]

Awesome. Can't wait to play with 341 at Hatboro-Horsham. I'd volunteer to use your opposite-loader, but I'm thinking we want to shoot our balls in auto.

[ebarker]

What part number did you use for the optical photosensor / tachometer ?

Ed

[Jared Russell]

It is the Allen Bradley 42EF-D1MNAK-A2 from last years' Kit of Parts.

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Wonderful bot.

A couple of questions:
1> when your manipulator flips out it looks like it breaks the front plane of the bot in more than 1 location. Are you concerned that it might be ruled 2 appendeges?
2> when your manipulator is deployed it appears to obscure your numbers. Is that just the angle of the picture?

Otherwise, the bot looks gorgeous.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

2> when your manipulator is deployed it appears to obscure your numbers. Is that just the angle of the picture?

I'm not sure why that would be a problem

Game - The Robot » Bumper Rules
Q. Can the bumpers be covered at any point by a dynamic appendage on the robot?
FRC1648 2012-01-14
A. There are no rules prohibiting this.

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

1> when your manipulator flips out it looks like it breaks the front plane of the bot in more than 1 location. Are you concerned that it might be ruled 2 appendeges?

The entire thing is articulated as a single assembly. It is difficult to see from the photo, but there is a reinforcement bar all the way across the width of the bot right at the point where we cross the frame perimeter (on top of the bumper). We momentarily break the plane in two separate places during the act of deployment, but that has been explicitly allowed via Q&A and Team Updates.

As for numbers: from a full frontal view, you can actually read them just fine when your intake is deployed. The intake is mostly air