pic: Capping a Robot

[Gadget470]

hahah Very cool strategy, kudos to the drivers who thought that one up

[Crazy_Ed]

Yea thats pretty sweet.... but I would really like to know how they folded it up again

Ours barely fits inside the "box" because our arm has a habit of poping open.

[Josh Fritsch]

As the first round of the day on Saturday, it really got the crowd going early.

[Ryan M.]

We havn't had our regional yet, but that is something to watch out for, as we too have a hopper. Nice job, hope nobody we play sees this.

[Carlo]

Well that surely brings a new meaning to 'mobile goal.' But lets pretend that it was a mobile goal...who would the points count for? Nice job on the strategy, hopefully no team will take it personally. It's just a strategy for a game, and an interesting one at that.

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Texan

We havn't had our regional yet, but that is something to watch out for, as we too have a hopper. Nice job, hope nobody we play sees this.

sweet.. i see your going to buckeye..hmmmm......

[Joe Matt]

This was the talk of our meeting. This is briliant strategy and a great example of using the field to your advantage. Question: was the bot capped during auton or after?

[Solace]

judging from the movie, after

[alt.|_/.er|]

Originally Posted by Solace

judging from the movie, after

Yes, but the picture may have been taken after, but the capping done prior.

But I am also a little confused. If the 45 seconds have already happened, and the balls have been droped what good would this do?

[Will Hanashiro]

Originally Posted by alt.|_/.er|

Yes, but the picture may have been taken after, but the capping done prior.

But I am also a little confused. If the 45 seconds have already happened, and the balls have been droped what good would this do?

correct me if i'm wrong guys... but the robot was capped after auton mode, but before the balls dropped. what you see in this pic is the robots pushing eachother after the balls were dropped and none went into the hopper.

this robot was simply awesome, it could catch every ball that fell, every time. in auto mode it just moves under the balls, and waited for either the automatic ball falling, or another robot triggering the fall.

[MisterX]

Originally Posted by alt.|_/.er|

Yes, but the picture may have been taken after, but the capping done prior.

But I am also a little confused. If the 45 seconds have already happened, and the balls have been droped what good would this do?

Judging from the picture it would seem that the robot was capped prior to the drop seeing as how there are three little balls on the sides of the multiplier... unless an Hp tossed them up their but that would make no sense unless attempting to dislodge the multplier in which case it would have done no good considering the balls had already dropped considering you can also see balls scattered about on the filed around the robot

[BoyWithCape195]

Originally Posted by alt.|_/.er|

Yes, but the picture may have been taken after, but the capping done prior.

But I am also a little confused. If the 45 seconds have already happened, and the balls have been droped what good would this do?

It wouldnt do anything, since they most likely already caught the balls. If you mean by picking them up from the ground, it doesnt make a big difference. The thing about that is, some teams cant pick them back up from the feild, only let them out.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by BoyWithCape195

It wouldnt do anything, since they most likely already caught the balls. If you mean by picking them up from the ground, it doesnt make a big difference. The thing about that is, some teams cant pick them back up from the feild, only let them out.

yeah.. both of the catching robots at the NJ regional just used some kind of agitator or something to get them out, and didnt actually use a roller system that would suck them back in.

[Crazy_Ed]

At the Orlando regional team 1083 (i think) had a omni-wheeled cilinder that could run over a ball and pick it up into a chute. It was amazingly simple but worked every time. Team Combat (don't know the num) did something similar by unfolding a large piece of material and waiting under the ball drop. They caught almost every ball every time but had trouble feeding them to the HP.

[BoyWithCape195]

Originally Posted by Crazy_Ed

At the Orlando regional team 1083 (i think) had a omni-wheeled cilinder that could run over a ball and pick it up into a chute. It was amazingly simple but worked every time. Team Combat (don't know the num) did something similar by unfolding a large piece of material and waiting under the ball drop. They caught almost every ball every time but had trouble feeding them to the HP.

The problem of feeding the balls to the human player was a big factor in the discouraging the use of this strategy to many teams. It was just very difficult to do and, most of the time, took the weight or time a team didnt have. I commend the teams that used that strategy, becasue it takes many hours to come out with an idea that gets the balls out everytime.