Whoa!
And I thought I read through the manual. Must have skimmed over that part… :ahh:
Seems like the rule might apply to the vacuous truth case of 0 robots on the field. Does this mean the maximum score you can get with no robots on an alliance is 44 points? Maybe this has been discussed somewhere else. Not a bad score though!
The Duluth East Daredevils (Team 2512) have a very cool mechanism for autonomous; I’ll let you watch it for yourself. They succeeded in doing this almost every match at the Duluth Northern Lights Regional.
thanks for pointing this one out, I don’t know how I missed this until now. That is very clever, and very do able by a lot of teams.
Hmm, I thought there might be a way to watch matches individually, I guess not. But yes, a robot set could count if there is only one robot in the field.
Very cool, but how is this any less illegal than 148’s Alfred string set?
As an unofficial guess, the argument about Alfred seemed to be more about placement than the string itself. Since it was suspended between multiple tether bots, it spanned the alliance’s field and was at approximate walking-into level. I looks like you’d have to try to walk into this setup (unless I can’t see all of it), thus making it less of a safety hazard.
This:
I mean how many teams have googly eyes?
Perhaps: 148’s is black, but 2512’s is a bright red-orange.
Ill try and answer these questions a little bit here.
The main difference I see between this and alfred is the string we chose. The students purposely chose the style of string because of the size and color. We could have gone with a much smaller for example mono-filament fishing line, but we found in our testing that the visibility of this was quite dangerous. We then moved on to our current option which is a braided line that is neon orange and easily visible. (even in the webcast)
We were also warned throughly during inspections about the entanglement hazards our system poses. We assured the inspector that with proper coordination with our alliance partners as well as our lengthy testing before bag 'n tag that it would not be a problem.
Our strategy team also brought specific rules and responses from Q&A to help support our design.
Keep an eye out for a full featured reveal/recap video towards Friday (3/6) 
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=135990&highlight=conveyor
Unique to say the least.
Team 4183 the Bit Buckets used the laser cutter at our build space, Xerocraft, to make a wooden robot that mines the landfill, and makes and caps stacks of four.
The laser cutter bed is only 29x17", so we had to use many pieces of wood bolted together to make the larger components. The drive base is three wood sheets long, and the elevator is three sheets tall. No glue used - it can be completely disassembled with a screwdriver.
It seems to have worked. We won the Arizona East regional as well as the Creativity Award.
http://www.bitbuckets.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/4183Robot1.jpg
Do you have a video of it in action?
That is a fairly unique design that is useful. Impressive design.
Since I have yet to see the PNW on here much, time for an update from up here
FRC 1318 has a cool step container auto Mechanism and their ally (and best friends, apparently) fold up their robot to fit into transport configuration. I have no idea how it works, but it does.
In that video you will also see my team (the beautiful black monstrosity)… we have a relatively unique claw- it’s one of those little claws that just sticks in under the side of the tote, but then we stabilize it with a pneumatic foot, allowing us to (after modifications post the event in the video) still lift up to 6 totes
This video shows us with the foot working (nice closeup at about 45 seconds in), as well as our 3 tote auto, but on the blue alliance is 3218, with the weirdest claw/lifter …thing… I have seen yet
1899, another PNW team, does a wood bot every year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUrPa4x4qfE&feature=youtu.be
948 has a scissor lift and 3 tote auto
And now for some cool non PNW robots
4334 has a tote flipper
this robot has two stackers
and these two guy are terrifying in auto
sorry if I did some overkill, but this is what I do in my free time now so I find a lot of stuff
I personally thought 1522 (Defenders of The Multiverse) at the Virginia Regional was a very interesting design. Very exciting to watch them play. Also wonderful alliance partners in the Quarterfinals! I don’t personally have a picture I can pull up at the moment.
195’s Tech Valley redesign is remarkable and unique. Their entire elevator slides across their robot. This serves to both push stacks off the human loading platform that is their robot onto the scoring platform, as well as allow the arms to extend outside the robot to grab containers from the floor.
They also have a swerve drive and a small ramp that makes their human loading even more efficient.
