One week in, what are you doing?

[z_beeblebrox]

We get stuck driving in all the corn.

[remulasce]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

We're trying to put a redirector underneath the ball return so that as soon as a ball enters the field, we roll it right into the goal!

I'm thinking, I should find a team and put a stop to that!

[mrnoble]

Wait. Isn't this the forum for the ancient worship of Apollo??? Delphi, right? Right? Hello?

[GeeTwo]

At the risk of tilting at windmills and putting this thread back on track:

We've moved from strategy to design and begun prototype. As of Thursday, we had built our first (motorless) prototype chassis using larger than 8" wheels. We have a backup chassis design based on multiple ranks of FRC 8" and smaller wheels still working as a plan B. We have selected the general location and operation of our boulder pickup and launcher, which will fit on either of those chassis designs. Tomorrow (Saturday, really one week in), we'll build a powered prototype of plan A to verify defense crossings, and continue maniplulator engineering! If Plan A fails or looks iffy, we'll place orders to prototype Plan B.

[Robomarfa]

Working on strategy while trying to keep my team out of In School Suspension.

/I'm not kidding.

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Taylor

We're having troubles with fuses blowing in our minibot. Anybody know how to handle this?

Handle it? That's how minibots are supposed to work!

[Thad House]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Handle it? That's how minibots are supposed to work!

Yeah! Its not a good match unless you have to replace a motor afterwards... Isn't that why everyone had 3 copies of their minibots??

[carpedav000]

Trying to get this dang noodle manipulator to work.

[Michael Hill]

We're working on our intake mechanism, but it keeps destroying our game pieces. Anyone know where to get more floppies?

[nxtmonkeys]

Originally Posted by Thad House

Yeah! Its not a good match unless you have to replace a motor afterwards... Isn't that why everyone had 3 copies of their minibots??

Four. It was four. They keep getting smashed by the totes, though.

[Rangel(kf7fdb)]

We are shooting for potentially scoring 301 points in our first regional. And maybe more?

[piersklein]

We are planning to hang off of the truss to score truss points and avoid defense!

Should get us 10 truss points every 10 seconds

[bobjones227]

Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb)

We are shooting for potentially scoring 301 points in our first regional. And maybe more?

Wait, like 301 points from all matches combined, or 301 points for a single match? Because 301 points for a single match would be insane for this game.

[MooreteP]

We're going to score 5 point boulders in the goal, cap it off with the 2X doublers, then scale the Tower and fend off all pretenders.

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb)

We are shooting for potentially scoring 301 points in our first regional. And maybe more?

if that's only from shooting, it's 59 high goal shots and 3 low goal shots. total of 62 shots in 135 seconds in teleop, meaning you score once every 2.18 second... I can only imagine the human player trying to deal with all those boulders to avoid G34