yes… we fall over…
We also fall over, but try to have some fun with it. We fell over once in qualifying matches and once in the semi-finals (not for long however, thanks 356!)
If you were at STL Regional you saw 525 bottom: “Help! I’ve fallen and I cant get up!”
We are planning to show the bottom to no one at nationals 
heh, so do lots of other robots when they are on the ramp…we fall over, but not on accident, nor on the ramp
We can make robots fall over, does that count?
our robot is too short to fall over 
No robot is too short to fall over.
Our robot tipped itself once in autonomous mode when our pnumkatic “wings” hit the side of the ramp at the same time we ran into cheezypoofs but normally we have no problem.
We have decided to make a video out of only robots tipping over after filming quite a few during the practice matches.
No robot is too small to be tipped over. At Sacramento we tipped over quite a few robots and ALMOST tipped ourselves even though we have such a low center of gravity.
Most robots get tipped over when they are pushing up the ramp against another robot. Let’s say the back wheels are spinning counter-clockwise when your robot is pushing up the ramp. If your robot isn’t going anywhere, the force of moving the wheels needs to go somewhere. Usually your wheels will just spin, but with the robot at such an angle the force will cause the robot to pivot clockwise around the back wheel and you will tip. You will tip even faster with a high center of gravity, but low robots will tip as well.
Basically, if your robot starts to tip, stop pushing and reverse directions!
*Originally posted by Gadget470 *
**No robot is too short to fall over.
<a supremely appropriate picture was here> **
Not to threadjack, but that was the most concise and accurate post I’ve seen on CD this season. Bravo.
our robot fell over like 10 times at sacramento… no non-cosmetic damage whatsoever
Hey! Team 612 played 8 QP matches(apposed to the 7 matches the other 61 teams @ VCU played before semi-finals), and we didn’t once fall over =)
I’d like to think we were ‘un-flipable’ with 110 pounds, almost perfectly balanced around the robot(except for the 15 pound wedge)
Not to mention our ground clearence was ~1 inch with interior wheels(so we dont ‘ride’ up a robot =)
http://www.diost.com/images/robot/wedge-pose-small.jpg
Other then that, I think most robots flipped =) Question is, can they get back up? =) Lol we can’t, but we wern’t designed to allow any room for ‘flippage’ =)
I only saw 1 team successfully do that, Grats to Sparky/Team 384 @ VCU Regional, too bad that’s only a 1-way flip recovery arm =p
356 helped right 525 in the semi-finals, I believe, at St. Louis!
It was easily the hilight of the day!
Sparky tipped over durring a match against a box, but then the arm self-righted Spark and the match continued.
Sparkey was cool =)
Though I had to admit i was cheering when the judges said you all lost the VCU semi-final seed =p (we were your competators after all)…
But, fair is fair, you had more QP, and won fair and square =)
btw JosephM, take a look over at http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19089 I had a question for 384 =) Also, most our team liked Sparkey too =) but we had to ally with our alliance partner for last year 
I was chearing for ya though (when i wasnt fighting ya!)
Gabe answered all your questions Lee.
Thanks for the comments guys.
We flipped. Then we stripped. (the robot) now it wont fall. but i saw a little short robot drive up on abox and flip. it was so sad. =)
Team 967 thought way ahead and can drive up side down. We even won an award for it!!!
I saw the Visoneers robot fall over onto a box in front of fellow Rochesterians Grrr Robotics who tipped them back upright (by mistake no doubt since they were opposing them).
835 got knocked over once and I think 85 BOB pushed them back upright. It helps to haave good capable partners to help you out when you get into trouble.
*Originally posted by Koko Ed *
**I saw the Visoneers robot fall over onto a box in front of fellow Rochesterians Grrr Robotics who tipped them back upright (by mistake no doubt since they were opposing them). **
Maybe they were just being extremely good sports. Nobody would fault Grrr for doing nothing or even making it harder for the Visioeers to get back up. It is entirely within the rules to do so.
But helping your opponent get back into the game is a very generous and sportsman-like thing to do. (assuming it was deliberate).
*Originally posted by ChrisH *
**Maybe they were just being extremely good sports. Nobody would fault Grrr for doing nothing or even making it harder for the Visioeers to get back up. It is entirely within the rules to do so.But helping your opponent get back into the game is a very generous and sportsman-like thing to do. (assuming it was deliberate). **
We Rochester teams like to stick together.
Plus Grrr are a bunch of good guys as well.