Hello this is Rob, a captain from the Hazel Park Robotics Team and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas in how to suck up tubbies. If you do it would be greatly appreciated.
i dunno if you saw us, team 23 but we just used a few sticks to push through the holes of the tubie. we had that mounted on an arm… simple is good 
Team 180 used a wheel (about 4-6") to dump out their tubies. If you could reverse this process, wheels/rollers/conveyors could be used to basically suck in tubies, but you would need some sort of mechanism to store them or dump them out. 23’s giant 12-prong fork worked as well, but it can only get as many tubies as there are lined up in front of it.
_Alex
Oreck makes a great vaccum cleaner
i dunno… they dont get our aluminum shavings from the carpet too well…
and so, to revive this thread again. anyone have new ideas on how to pick upthe tubies? well, we’re gonna see them tomorrow (well not some of the teams but) care to give any hints?
we’ll give our secret up… we’re gonna change nothing on our picking up tubies thingy. we have a new skateboard tho!! its “stock” from our last year’s robot frame with 2 more casters and stripped of everything we didnt need anymore… which sadly included our wonderful “beautiful” black posterboard we used to win the beautiful bot award last year at finals.