pic: 1771 finished

[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.

[Jeff Pahl]

Congratulations to 1771 for winning the Xerox Creativity Award at the Championship!! You guys have come a long way in 3 years, and were very deserving of this award this year for a very unique approach to your design.

Glad you got to go to the Championship, I know it was a last minute thing but I really enjoyed seeing your robot again.

[MAteo9944]

I second what Jeff said. Your robot was absolutely amazing this year(especially after having helped build your robot at Peachtree last year). It was so slick and I am glad you guys got the creativity award. I loved seeing you guys launch the ball from the other side of the lane divider.
You've done amazing things with your program this year and I hope we get a chance to work with you guys in the future. We have talked for so long about this Gwinnett Alliance, but it has never made it further just talk. In a couple of weeks(after the team gets a break and we clean up the lab) I plan on calling or contacting you guys so we can work it out. I'd love to see us do something similar to what MOE does with their team.