pic: Jake Blues Front

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Rich Kressly

The fan is used during the match when quickness and precise turning are necessary - which was quite frequently during elimination matches.

There's another important time where quickness is imperative -- the first few seconds of a match. Even with the time it takes to spin up to full thrust, the extra boost from the propeller gets the TechnoKats' robot out of easy targeting range in a jiffy. I haven't gone over the video yet, but I don't think I ever saw more than two moon rocks thrown into Jake's trailer during autonomous, and it seemed that half the time the trailer was empty until well into teleoperated.

[David Hoff]

Originally Posted by Dan2081

After today I am really dissappointed that that the only regional we're going to is BMR.. where 11, 45, 234, 931 will all be. All regional champs

Edit: Whoops! meant 111

Don't forget about 1747 who went undefeated and won the Buckeye Regional. BMR should be an intense competition this year.

[Alan Anderson]

Jake's propeller has no noticeable gyroscopic effect. Though it's spinning at over 2000 RPM, it has very little mass.