Airzooka

[PayneTrain]

Im sure there is a rule that we cant throw objects, but what about air?

I don't know how everyone here skipped over this bit of gold.

[JeffersonMartin]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

I don't have a picture, but I'm almost 100% positive 869 has a giant fan on their robot.

At Palmetto, 619 had a box fan on their's for their last couple of matches. It seemed really effective actually.

[Dad1279]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

I don't have a picture, but I'm almost 100% positive 869 has a giant fan on their robot.

From TCNJ:

[Jaxom]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

It's completely different than using fans in 2009, and I don't know of any teams using them this year. In 2009, fans were used to provide additional propulsion given the mandated wheels and "regolith" surface, not to deflect game pieces.

1982 built one at GKC. They used a model airplane prop on a Banebot 770 inside a section of bucket. Nice, safe, mesh covering both ends. I know it was in use (you can see it on our POV video) but I don't think it was very effective. Certainly not against shots from the pyramid.

[JohnSchneider]

Originally Posted by Jaxom

1982 built one at GKC. They used a model airplane prop on a Banebot 770 inside a section of bucket. Nice, safe, mesh covering both ends. I know it was in use (you can see it on our POV video) but I don't think it was very effective. Certainly not against shots from the pyramid.

Well to be fair you really drive your frisbees in there...they arent "lofted" shots.

But imagine it back at a full court shooter. an inch of lift down there could mean a mile when it reaches the goals.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

I don't know of any teams using them this year.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/38644

You have now been informed of a VERY LARGE fan mounted on a robot by an FRC team. (How it did, I don't know offhand.)

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by EricH

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/38644

You have now been informed of a VERY LARGE fan mounted on a robot by an FRC team. (How it did, I don't know offhand.)

Now take a look at their competition robot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy4iNwGEb3k

[John Sabath]

No. Just no.

That's not even taking advantage of the rules, that's just playing dirty.

[ablatner]

There are rules about what the drive team can have during a match. This is not one of the allowed items.

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by ablatner

There are rules about what the drive team can have during a match. This is not one of the allowed items.

I think the troll meant standing in the stands as a spectator.

[dtengineering]

It's that little quoted rule, 3.14.1, that requires all competitions to conform to the laws of physics.

It might be worth trying at the Hogwarts' Academy off-season event, where 3.14.1 is normally waived.

Jason

Please note that 3.14.1 also specifically disallows helping robots to climb by "jumping up and down really hard" in the stands, and using divine intervention to improve autonomous mode.

[Kevin Sevcik]

The game is meant to be played by the humans and robots that are on the field and no one else. Duh. Other illegal acts from the sidelines include:

1. Jamming a robot's radio
2. Blinding a driver with a portable skylight
3. Disabling a robot with an EMP canon
4. Distracting a driver with an LRAD
5. Shooting drivers with tranquilizer darts
6. Throwing caltrops onto the field
7. "Disabling" a robot with a Barrett M82 sniper rifle.

I propose that before anyone uses the "it's just air" excuse, they must explain the difference between sniping a frisbee with a puff of air, versus a well placed blunted arrow. And if they still want to argue "it's just air", then we toss them in a 75mph wind tunnel for 30 minutes or so. I mean, it's just air, it's not like it's really doing anything.

[Brandon Zalinsky]

Originally Posted by dtengineering

and using divine intervention to improve autonomous mode.

Hey, it works! Our team always does magic fingers to encourage a successful auton.

[eddie12390]

Originally Posted by Flak-Bait

Hey, it works! Our team always does magic fingers to encourage a successful auton.

Even after it has worked consistently all day I still find myself crossing every appendage that I can. I've tried to get other team members to do it, also. My thought is that if we will it hard enough it will suddenly have the most advanced autonomous available and all of the frisbees on the field will just fly into our loader.