After modifying our robot to block tall shooters we wanted to see if we could still climb and the result was an astounding yes! But alas we did not get pick for an alliance…
maybe next year…Hopefully we are the ones picking.
Still my favorite climber. Congrats on the WFA.
Seeing you guys at the practice field up close was an amazing site to behold, My only question is how did you guys come up with this method of climbing? Did you guys prototype a lot or just really go through everything and CAD in depth models?
This is an amazing climber!! I am sad I did not get to see this in person.
I think the Number 1 alliance in our division would have had a chance if they chose you…
All in CAD, again and again and again! The build team was getting mad waiting for the CAD to get done! We decided it was too difficult and resource intensive to prototype traditionally.
We were hoping that teams in the top eight would see it, but in our last match, we did not get to try it…bummer!
Not to be the party pooper, but I don’t see any belay ropes on the climb? I thought they were required on all pyramidal testing on the practice fields?
Well, that’s a slick mechanism if I’ve ever seen one. The pool-noodle-bending is a nice contrast.
Out of curiosity, how much leeway is there in the position of the center of mass for a climber like that?
I can’t speak for Championship because I wasn’t competing there (only there as a spectator) but at MSC the belay system was used same as on the competition field, while taking the robots down after a climb. Hope this helps.
This year has proven to me that you can have more fun with pool noodles at a robot competition than in a pool!
There was a belay rope available for taking robots off of the practice pyramid, as well as one for the practice field where they were running matches.
One insane idea and lots and lots of CADding. We never had a working prototype, and the robot had never even climbed to 10 points when we bagged it. We got the climbing mechanism to work for the first time on our practice robot a week before our first regional.
At every event we competed at this season (GSR, PTR, & CMP), the belay system was available to take the robot off the pyramid but it wasn’t required. Which I found very odd.
Nice Climb !!
Pardon my ignorance, but were the pool noodles somehow functioning to help with the climb, or were they “tethered” just to get them out of the way of the climb?
The pool noodles were tethered to stay out of the way of the climb. We realized at this point in the competition that whatever alliance we might end up on that we were going to be the weakest disk scorer. We wanted to show that if we had gone up against a full court shooter that we could be the ones who block them while still being able to climb.
This was my first idea right after watching the game animation. I abandoned that idea pretty quickly because it seemed like it would be very complicated. Nice job at doing it successfully!
Well done! That’s a great climb.