pic: FRC525 2014 Robot Render

[Tom Ore]

We had a couple of questions at CIR about the render - it was done in Creo.

The robot ran well for most of the event and our drive team was outstanding.

We had one issue late in the eliminations rounds. One of our pots came loose and we lost the preset positions for our main ball pickup. This interfered with some auto and teleop shots. By the time we figured out what was wrong it was too late to fix it. We ran the last finals matches with out shooting at all -1986 picked up the shooting roll and were awesome!

I'm not sure if the pot was never tightened properly or if the heavy defense helped work it loose - we'll consider adding threadlocker to the pots for Queen City.

[Michael Hill]

Originally Posted by Tom Ore

We had a couple of questions at CIR about the render - it was done in Creo.

The robot ran well for most of the event and our drive team was outstanding.

We had one issue late in the eliminations rounds. One of our pots came loose and we lost the preset positions for our main ball pickup. This interfered with some auto and teleop shots. By the time we figured out what was wrong it was too late to fix it. We ran the last finals matches with out shooting at all -1986 picked up the shooting roll and were awesome!

I'm not sure if the pot was never tightened properly or if the heavy defense helped work it loose - we'll consider adding threadlocker to the pots for Queen City.

We were curious why you guys weren't shooting in auto in elims. That explains it

[Tom Ore]

Originally Posted by Michael Hill

We were curious why you guys weren't shooting in auto in elims. That explains it

I was up in the stands at the time and feared the worst - I'm glad it wasn't some sort of catastrophic failure.

[Bruce Newendorp]

About halfway through the timeout between F2 and F3 we discovered the pot body had rotated slightly causing the pickup arm to be out of position. The few minutes remaining were not enough to tighten it and reset the zero point.
At Queen City we will hot glue the body to the gear box and use threadlock.

We also had a battery retaining bracket break during F2 and we spent most of the timeout zip tying the battery in place.

Overall it appears we survived the finals carnage without significant damage.