CADathon 2015 Challenge

[KohKohPuffs]

The challenge: Football Fury (I'm very good at names )

"Game manual" can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...it?usp=sharing

CAD to the field can be found here: https://workbench.grabcad.com/workbe...rb0_DhFP5LB381

Rules:

• Premade CAD models are unusable. Exceptions include VexPro Versaplanetaries, etc.
• Distribute work among each other evenly.
• Use gracious professionalism; people from different teams are going to be participating with you

Other things:

• Watch out for some software conflicts. For the Autodesk users especially (I do not have anything against Autodesk), I screwed up a bit and some people are using different years for the software. You can choose to swap out members between the two Autodesk groups, or work out a decent solution
• If someone plans on coming in at a later time or is leaving early, be sure to have a plan for when that person is out
• Although I said 10am-9pm PST, feel free to take breaks for food, bathroom, stretching, etc.
• At the very end, we might have a joint Google Hangout to discuss our ideas. Just wondering if anyone is down for that

[OrionBelt]

Quick question. Are the footballs neutral, similar to ultimate ascent, or are they team exclusive, such as in aerial assist?

[KohKohPuffs]

Originally Posted by OrionBelt

Quick question. Are the footballs neutral, similar to ultimate ascent, or are they team exclusive, such as in aerial assist?

Sorry if I didn't make that clear: they are team exclusive. I really thought of this to be a design challenge, so I left a lot of things out

[DesignComp]

Originally Posted by KohKohPuffs

Sorry if I didn't make that clear: they are team exclusive. I really thought of this to be a design challenge, so I left a lot of things out

Unfortunately it's not that easy.

[Torrance]

What happens if you miss and the football goes off the field? Is it like 2013 where no one can use it again? Or 2014 where the field reset crew will carry it back to your alliance wall?

Thanks!
Andrew Torrance
Team 3

[Chris is me]

I might draw a simple robot for this over the next few days out of sheer boredom. Just to be clear:

- Does the 3 balls per alliance on the field rule apply in auton? I.e. if I preload 1 ball and have 1 ball touch my robot, does that mean the rest of my alliance only receives one ball in autonomous?
- Balancing on the step = not touching any other part of the field?
- If balls are recycled does that basically mean an alliance has infinite game pieces as long as only 3 are on the field at a time (similar to 2014 and the ball)?

Originally Posted by Torrance

What happens if you miss and the football goes off the field? Is it like 2013 where no one can use it again? Or 2014 where the field reset crew will carry it back to your alliance wall?

Thanks!
Andrew Torrance
Team 3

For what it's worth, in 2013 Frisbees were placed on the field by volunteers if ejected. I would assume something similar to that unless otherwise stated.

[BenGuy]

Is there a livestream?

[Sperkowsky]

So its over and our alliance is done. What do we do now?

[Munchskull]

it is over. now what?

[orangemoore]

Originally Posted by Munchskull

it is over. now what?

+1

[DanielPlotas]

Originally Posted by Munchskull

it is over. now what?

He said in the google docs page:

I was thinking about having a mass google hangout, but I think we should call it a day; some things didn't work out, etc. Just remember to upload all your work to grabCAD

I guess we're doing it tomorrow?

[thatprogrammer]

If koh koh is okay with it, can we see the designs in this thread? Curious to see what the designs where.

[Roboshant]

[url="https://grabcad.com/library/frc-cadathon-football-frenzy-defense-basic-bot-1"]I was by myself in group 4, and built a defense robot. I was going to use a shooting mechanism from another team on our alliance, but didn't get the time. It is primarily meant to be on the side opposite of the driver, and block the other team from scoring. It can also "wrap" around the flag base (at least the front) to prevent the team from scoring up to 40 for raising the flag.
(Note this is a work in progress)

[thatprogrammer]

Originally Posted by Roboshant

[url="https://grabcad.com/library/frc-cadathon-football-frenzy-defense-basic-bot-1"]I was by myself in group 4, and built a defense robot. I was going to use a shooting mechanism from another team on our alliance, but didn't get the time. It is primarily meant to be on the side opposite of the driver, and block the other team from scoring. It can also "wrap" around the flag base (at least the front) to prevent the team from scoring up to 40 for raising the flag.
(Note this is a work in progress)

Can you posted an image? 3d viewer isn't working for me .

[Roboshant]

Yeah, unfortunately when I exported a lot of my parts were lost for some reason