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Speeds
Uhh, lol, that really depends on which material we have on our treads. But, A rough time of 10 seconds to be at the top of the ramp is fairly close.
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well,its not exactly a great time, but i guess u guys are planning on moving around during the match, or are u gonna sit on the ramp?
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Movin around
of course. we can either sit, or move around a lot. We dont plan on being a punching bag this year, were going to play each match as we get it. That's up to the strategy section of our team.
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Thanks!!!
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I am sure Denny and I will be more than busy throughout the competitions as well as any down time. Wish Phil was around for this great season!! All you have to do is just make sure that Big T3 truck is done!!! ![]() |
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Thanks to all of the teams who have been checking out our robot! We are very proud of our bot this year and hope that we can take it great places. It is comments like yours that help us determine our strategy. Hopefully everyone else this year is as proud of their robot as we are about our own. GOOD LUCK AND CYA SOON!
~Lauren~ Go out there and kick some robutt! |
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Nice looking robot; hope you have lots of spare arms because the judges won't really be strict against teams trying to push something that covers the field...
Oh yeah, read this too: Quote:
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Your limbo bar setup is illegal.
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As posted earlier our robot's arms dont actually touch anypart of the side bars or the plexiglass. The rule states to touch with the intent of supporting your robot and we have all of our support on the HDPE. We have taken into consideration many different aspects of contact and have cleared all of them. It will be okay...
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OK not breaking any rules there....
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For the second one: we are not wrapping around, the maximum that our robot will ever touch is on one side and that is the result of another team pushing into it. Hard words coming out..... |
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Read the bold text.
When a robot hits your "mechanism", it will hit the midfield barrier, thereby reacting against it purposely. It's pretty obvious this mechanism is intentionally designed to react off the barrier to gain advantage. The question you have to ask yourself is this: If the midfield barrier weren't there, would a team still be able to get by? If the answer to this is yes, then you are relying on the barrier, thereby purposely reacting on it. I doubt you can answer no to that question because those arms are a very, very long lever. There's virtually no drivetrain that can push against that 12'+ lever. There's no difference between this, and grabbing a goal in last years game, and having a mechanism that sticks between two field poles and saying, "Oh, we're not touching the field poles, but if someone pushes us, that's their fault." In the end, it will come down to the referee ruling at the competition. We'll just have to wait and see. Last edited by Jnadke : 20-02-2003 at 22:37. |
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IMHO, it's too cool of a design to be illegal
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OK...
Still we can argue that a downward force is on each of those legs.
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This is all I have to say: Toy story's spider has been reborn...
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Perhap's the "Tether Rule" may be subjected here. Where as the illegal items become legal because there was a lot of engineering effort put in. Who knows, I agree that it will be a ref's decision.
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I hope they stop this problem before it starts, otherwise teams will be adding mechanisms to take advantage of this loophole. Kinda like filecards and tape measures last year. Everyone had them after they found out they were legal. Then FIRST tried to crack down at Nationals but by then it was too late, everyone had them. |
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