Go watch 2383 at the South Florida Regional.
Both 236 and 237 had incredible autonomous routines this past weekend in Waterbury.
236 had a unique tote stack auto, and 237 had a unique step container auto.
And 987’s autonomous routine was incredible.
Our robot won the Dallas Creativity Award for our lift’s 360° turning capability and our “terrifying” arm mechanism, which was done by blending two robots into one. I suppose its name, Frankenbunny, fits well. 
Like this if I’m not mistaken
I can’t remember if the wheels are Colsons or the Fairlane expandable wheels.
After watching FRCTop25 Premiere Night and some of the Week 1 competitions I am very impressed with the creative approach to this year’s challenge (as well as the incredible skills of teams documenting their journey).
If you are a team with unique and innovative design, manufacturing, and/or control processes and are interested in the chance to be a part of the next book about FRC robots, please let Vince and I know! You can send a note to FRCBook2015@usfirst.org and we will forward details on the submittal process.
Good luck teams!
Stephanie Slezycki
I saw that on the webcast and LOVED it. Really clever execution from a rookie! What a great way to kick off your team’s history.
Anybody got anything on tem 4543 they seem to be hinting at something for a noodle manipulator.
That and they have a giant fan on their robot…
Unique, and it appears to work really well. I wonder how many more will have complete pickup mechanisms from under the stack? That thing is awesome.
In teleop we have written code for the robot to work in an Auto-Pilot Mode where it makes its own stacks and feeds them to the scoring platform only requiring our human player to feed it totes. i will try to find some video of it and post it later.
If I remember correctly they where using Fairlane wheels, looked like 4"x1".
987 was able to get nearly every possible autonomous item and score it, the only exception was that they miss one container so it isn’t counted as a container set, but besides that they could score every possible autonomous point if they were alone. There should be some videos on it in dallasfirstvideo.com.
I can’t seem to navigate the site well enough to see the videos, but I do wonder how they could get the maximum autonomous points:
Robot Set - 4 points
Container Set - 8 points
Stacked Tote Set - 20 points
Total is 32 points.
Could they get a robot set by themselves? If not, and they don’t get the container set as well (you said they didn’t), then it’s just the standard 20 points from the stacked tote set that we’ve seen from some other teams.
EDIT: Of course I could just watch the video on TBA. That is a sweet autonomous!!! One robot, two containers, three totes.
I believe they get 2 RCs and all 3 yellow totes and then move into the auto zone. An impressive feat to say the least.
Just learned this weekend: you can get a robot set by yourself if you’re the only robot!
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?