Team Update 1 Posted

[Ty Tremblay]

Originally Posted by Andrew_L

So now the question lies in how quickly balls are removed from the boiler. I understand that it should be spinning at a minimum rate of 5 balls per second at all times during the match, but it also speeds up to up to 15 balls / second - at what point does that happen and for how long?

Pretty sure they mean it gets more efficient as more balls enter since less balls are bouncing around inside and more balls are there to find their way into the slots.

[Andrew_L]

Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay

Pretty sure they mean it gets more efficient as more balls enter since less balls are bouncing around inside and more balls are there to find their way into the slots.

Gotcha that makes sense.

[RoboTigers1796]

Are there any VR compatible images of the field this year? The ones last year offered such a great experience for those of us who don't have the opportunity to see a real field until competition.
It really helped us get a feel for what the field looks like and some of the restrictions we will face when we get there (vision from driver station, little things we can't make out from tour video, drawings, and CAD, etc) / its just cool to virtually stand on the new FRC field.

[Nathan Streeter]

Originally Posted by Andrew_L

So now the question lies in how quickly balls are removed from the boiler. I understand that it should be spinning at a minimum rate of 5 balls per second at all times during the match, but it also speeds up to up to 15 balls / second - at what point does that happen and for how long?

Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay

Pretty sure they mean it gets more efficient as more balls enter since less balls are bouncing around inside and more balls are there to find their way into the slots.

Where's the 15 balls/second speed given? As far as I can tell, neither the 5 or 15 balls/second is given in the manual (so I'm hesitant to really count on either)... The only places I heard the 5 balls/second speed given were in the live broadcast and in the Boiler Field Tour video (which says 4-5 balls/second).

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

Where's the 15 balls/second speed given? As far as I can tell, neither the 5 or 15 balls/second is given in the manual (so I'm hesitant to really count on either)... The only places I heard the 5 balls/second speed given were in the live broadcast and in the Boiler Field Tour video (which says 4-5 balls/second).

Page 34 of the manual gives an average of 5 fuel per second.

[Greg Hainsworth]

Slightly off topic but relevant to receiving updates for 2017

Last year I received notices of game updates through an app on my phone. This year, I recommended to team members to get this app on their phones too since it is much more convenient to get a notification than to go to the website and search for the updates.

Searching the app store, no one found the app listed anymore. And my app didn't get a notification of this game update. Seems to not be functioning for this season.

what are the rest of you using to get these updates automatically? any suggestions?

[bdaroz]

Originally Posted by Greg Hainsworth

what are the rest of you using to get these updates automatically? any suggestions?

Twitter. Following @frcteams. It's sometimes a bit spammy for my taste, but the timely notices make up for it.

(And I should note, I have an extremely low tolerance for SPAM, YMMV.)

... And they do respond to tweets too!

[Nathan Streeter]

Originally Posted by ATannahill

Page 34 of the manual gives an average of 5 fuel per second.

Thanks! Not sure how I missed it in my reading or in my search. Any idea where the 15 fuel/second comes from?

[rich2202]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

Any idea where the 15 fuel/second comes from?

There was something about processing up to 8 Fuel/Second in a full hopper. So, if the High and Low hopper were full, it could process about 15 fuel/second combined.

[rich2202]

Drawing Omissions:
This year, certain field equipment drawings are excluded because we don’t believe they are relevant to a robot’s interaction with the field, and they may provide a solution to an element of the game challenge.

Field drawing providing a solution? Magazine for a shooter? Conveyor lift to load the shooter?