One idea we threw around in brainstorming was a giant fan on top of the robot to push incoming balls away with air, I’d like to see a robot with THAT.
Yup, we did that too, but feasabilty testing showed us it wasn’t going to work well enough. oh well
Thats exactly what I was thinking, return of the KOTH bots from 2003. That was my first thought before I heard the expansion rule, was park a robot in the middle of the field and lower wings down, blocking all traffic.
What would be interesting, is if the expanision rule was lifted only in the horizontal directions. It’d also be interesting if the height limit was redifined, saying robots can not be taller than 60inches, but does not prohibit breaking the imaginary plane 60in above the floor. I really wanted to do a bot like 111’s 2001 machine, so somoene else could drive up on top of my bot, placing their shooting mechanism at point blank range right in front of the center goal.