pic: 330 placing three cans up high

[ShaneP]

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[MrForbes]

It looks like 330 figured out what's important in this game!

[brandon.cottrell]

Ah geez. Welp, we may as well give up now.

[dcarr]

Looks awesome, can't wait to see this in action later this week.
I'm particularly curious how difficult it is to pick up three RCs that may or may not be in various states of disarray.

[steelerborn]

An auto code that picks up all three would be best. Orientation is guaranteed and also placement. Plus it is time they would not have to spend during telop.

[MooreteP]

Requires a Canburglar.
My new favorite descriptor.

[Kevin Sevcik]

I'm also curious about the time savings for picking up 3 RCs vs. 1 at a time.

Plus, you start with only 3. Depending on robot capabilities, you might be waiting around an awful lot of the match with those 3 RCs. Or driving around stacking with them. I suppose you could spend some of the time in front of the HP station getting noodled, though.

[IronicDeadBird]

I like it a lot except I thought only two of those cans would count in that orientation. Is it just like that so your totes wall off the other side for secrecy?

[g_sawchuk]

Oh, I'll take that can now. Maybe that one too. And that one.
Awesome mechanism.
If you don't get it in autonomous though, you will be in big trouble. Otherwise you risk getting the bins tipped over, and it doesn't seem like this mechanism would worked for tipped cans. Does this extend to the step? And "can the cans" get noodled while in the organism?

Good luck at competition.

[tindleroot]

Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird

I like it a lot except I thought only two of those cans would count in that orientation. Is it just like that so your totes wall off the other side for secrecy?

All of those bins count as long as they are not supporting each other's weight.

[IronicDeadBird]

Originally Posted by tindleroot

All of those bins count as long as they are not supporting each other's weight.

Thought it was one bin per stack though. BRB rule digging

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by tindleroot

All of those bins count as long as they are not supporting each other's weight.

Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird

Thought it was one bin per stack though. BRB rule digging

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Originally Posted by 2015 FRC Game Manual Section 3.1.2.3

A RECYCLING CONTAINER is scored if it is fully supported by only scored Gray TOTES. Points for a scored RECYCLING
CONTAINER are awarded based on the lowest LEVEL in which any portion of the RECYCLING CONTAINER resides.