For those who expect to be on Einstein this year, The Zebra MotionWorks Tag 3D models can be found on the FIRST website here: Championship Information | FIRST
Scroll down to “Einstein Tournament”, Click the “+”
Many donors routinely monitor the impact that their donations have on the intended recipients. With the more advanced notice this year of the tags’ use, and the 3D models made available on FIRST’s Team Resources page, we hope that most of the issues cited last year have been addressed and that the opt-in rate for this year is much higher. Good luck to all the teams competing this year! We hope to see you for the MotionWorks presentation on Friday at 12:00 in 350F, and to see many of you on Einstein of Saturday!
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Did all teams on Einstein run Zebra Tags this year?
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I counted 3 that didnt at any point, all Hopper. 1323, 4414, 2609.
@jjsessa @R.C hope you dont mind me poking at you two to hear what prevented the use of them this year.
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23/27 (~85%) Robots who played in a match used the tags. This was an increase in the opt-in rate from 2022.
2 Robots played one match and didn’t use the tags
1 Robot played more than one match and put tags on after their first match
2 Robots played more than 1 match without using the tags
Edit:
This year we had several matches where all 6 robots in a match used the tags which I believe only happened once last year.
2023 Match 1 had 1 robot untagged, and Match 3 had all 6 robots tagged. There was an issue on our end that held up the data to TBA. It will be reprocessed when the crates get back to us.
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To be very honest, we just don’t like changing stuff going into elims to the point where we hesitate to make a code change. The only code changes we did at champs was move the angle of our robot 1 degrees in auto and intake down .5 degrees due to cubes being more flat.
We’ve had numerous occasions where stuff we’ve added on the robot vibrates or break loose and gets stuck into subsystems aka zipties, tape, bolts etc…No knock on the Zebra tags, we love what they bring to the competition but we’ve been burned by last minute additions multiple times.
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Obviously it can be different with the high speed collisions of einsteins. This year I used 1 piece of double stick tape on each tag. And they never came off throughout either regional (we took off and replaced em, and it took a lot of force to remove)
Even through all the hits and flips, the tags stayed firm.
But totally understand the worry and possible superstition.
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