pic: "Gear Head" - trophy for FIRST Finale Asphalt Challenge

[MrForbes]

Beautiful trophy!

I've always wondered why they call us gearheads, now I know....

[Tottanka]

WOW! any chance for a webcast of it/video capture please =]
anyhow, if i knew about this trophy, i would have designed a speedy robot just for that!

[Kristian Calhoun]

At 27 ft/s, I'd probably have to place my bet on Team 102, The Gearheads.

[The Lucas]

So Andy, how well do your omniwheels handle on asphalt at high speeds?

I think FIRST Finale Asphalt Challenge could double as "extreme product testing"

[Jeff Rodriguez]

How will you determine who's the fastest robot?
Also, what will the actual drag surface be? I imagine it's going to be on the road that runs through the park, but will they bring out carpet for it or will it be on the pavement?

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by The Lucas

So Andy, how well do your omniwheels handle on asphalt at high speeds?

I think FIRST Finale Asphalt Challenge could double as "extreme product testing"

"extreme product testing"... yeah, I like that.

We can make more omni wheels.

Originally Posted by Jeff Rodriguez

How will you determine who's the fastest robot?
Also, what will the actual drag surface be? I imagine it's going to be on the road that runs through the park, but will they bring out carpet for it or will it be on the pavement?

Key volunteers on each field will be asked to determine who the 4 fastest robots are by Friday at lunch. By then, they will see practice matches and a couple of Q matches. I will collect names and then we (Mark or Nick or myself) make personal invites to those teams. Teams will need to let us know soon if they want to do this or not.

I am pretty sure that we are running on the pavement, without carpet. There will be alliance stations out there, power for the OI's, and some Mode Switches to help start things equally.

I can understand the concern for lack of carpet. If this is a problem for the invited teams, they can simply deny the invitation. This is simply a fun thing to do.

Andy B.

[Akash Rastogi]

I'm deffinitly going with the gearheads ftw on this one. team 102 has a robot our team affectionately named "Splungy," "Speedy," and "Speedy Gonzales."

Gearheads ftw

[=Martin=Taylor=]

I'll bet on 968/254. I believe their top speed is around 20 fps. and with six motors it doesn't take long to reach that speed

[David Hoff]

Precision Guessworks Team 1646 would love to get a shot at that beautiful trophy but either way this race will be awesome and I hope to be present when it happens.

[Michael Corsetto]

Originally Posted by Kristian Calhoun

At 27 ft/s, I'd probably have to place my bet on Team 102, The Gearheads.

27 ft/s? They must really "Rush" around the field

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

[Herodotus]

Originally Posted by Rex114

27 ft/s? They must really "Rush" around the field

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

Very punny.

That is a very sweet lookin' trophy right there. We were thinking of making some trophies for our school LAN tournament, and I'm liking the stacked gears. I'll have to keep that in mind.

[Athleticgirl389]

Originally Posted by Kristian Calhoun

At 27 ft/s, I'd probably have to place my bet on Team 102, The Gearheads.

I think this award should go to the team it's named after LOL!!! but yes... 27fps is what our lil bot does... geared for 30fps but hey, we can't expect everything to go 100% lol

[Lil' Lavery]

I have a feeling that this is going to come down to the same thing that wins real drag races, acceleration (and solid driving). I don't care what your bot is geared to run at, if mine can reach top speed faster I'll beat you there.

[Qbranch]

So, I'll take that as yes, you don't need an operator, you can run autonomous control of your robot?

-q

[jwfoss]

note to self, build fastest bot, with crazy acceleration for next year...

no seriously though, that is a really cool trophy