pic: 1771 finished

[sdcantrell56]

I think a lot of people didn't believe that a vacuum could work so well but we have a new mentor this year who is a pneumatics engineer who led the team in this pursuit. Without him this idea wouldn't have been possible. It definitely took some trial and error though.

[Ian Curtis]

Wow! That's beautiful! That robot is elegant in form and function! I would be suprised if you didn't get an engineering award for that! How many hurdles can you get in a given match? Do you find it hard to get the ball into the sucker? Seriously, hats off to you guys!

[Racer26]

Are those the BB motors, or the FP's in your vaccuum generator?

[Maggie27]

That's amazing!
& the song completely fits the video & the effects.
Nice job

[sdcantrell56]

We are using 2 fisher price motors in the vacuum. Also when the arm is lined up right which it will be as soon as we program the pot, acquiring the ball is instantaneous. The amount of suction we have is a bit ridiculous

[RyanZ]

me like dont you think you should worry if the ball shoots over the oposing teams side

[sdcantrell56]

Haha thats kinda funny that you mention that. In the video you can kinda see where the ball almost bounced over and someone had to knock it back in. I think if we shoot at full speed and at the perfect angle we could potentially clear the driver station but thats not really our goal although it would look super cool.

[AdmiralAllen]

that's got to be a safety hazard....

[Freddy Schurr]

Freaking amazing!

[ll4m4ra0r]

That looks so nice, and works well to boot! Did you use the KOP compressor for that?

[Dan Petrovic]

Wow.

Can you place the ball at the end?

It looks like you will be very successful this year.

[sdcantrell56]

Thanks for the compliments. We can place at the end actually fairly easily.

Unfortunately we already had our regional and we didn't come away victorious. There was a somewhat questionable play on us that eliminated us from the semifinals. In the elimination matches we averaged 5 hurdles per match.

Unless there is some miracle we will not be attending any other regionals or the championships unfortunately. We did win an award for our design and it was the hit of the regional.

[ttldomination]

regardless i was impressed by how it works. I'm pretty sure their design was one of the finalist for the creativity award...

[brentmcjunkin]

I would like to say now that they are at nationals they are finished they wernt finished until then congrats i remember when our mentor told us you would not be going and all of our jaws hit tha floor

[sdcantrell56]

We're so excited we get a chance to show off our robot now. We were really disappointed that no one would get to see how good it was, especially watching other regionals and realizing we can compete with anyone.