What improvements to your bot has your team made between qualifying for champs and attending?

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Absolutely true. My comment was specifically about shooting while moving. I think that can be done with either a turret only, swerve only or a turret+swerve. If you don’t have either a turret or swerve, you will only be able to shoot while moving in certain specific directions (although I suppose that if you were to allow your code to momentarily turn one way or the other, shoot, and then return control back the the driver’s desired direction it might be possible to shoot while driving with a non-turretted tank drive bot).

My point was that it is not necessarily an easier problem to solve if you have swerve+turret than if you just had one or the other.

Glad you are enjoying your swerve. Welcome to the cult.

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All of our changes were around making our shooter faster and more accurate.

Mechanical changes:

  • Add passive ball centering mechanism in the conveyor
  • Ditched 2 position pnuematic hood for fixed position hood, fixed at 30°
  • Replaced main and hood wheel colsons with fairlanes

Software changes:

  • Vision shot auto aligns the drivetrain and spins up to speed much faster. It’s about a second now.

All of these changes have dramatically increased the number of balls we shoot during practice, from around 10 in teleop, to more than 20. Really looking forward to seeing what our robot can do on a real field and finally live up to it’s full potential!

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We have made some intake improvements that really should’ve been done in build season to prevent balls from bouncing off our intake and have made reliability improvements to our climb.

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Shoot while move :eyes:

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Well, yes, but in a way that avoids any fouls. Let’s just say that it involves some air movement.

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We all worship at the feet of the gods of swerve.

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rebuild the climber to be lighter and faster
replaced all wear and tear items
intake wheels belts
drive train chain tread gears
new bumper fabric

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Swerves are not very new to us. We have used Swerve every year since the 2014 season. We even made a tank Swerve. I appreciate the welcome but we are far aware of the swerve drive cult.

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@crh_redbird1 @wgorgen can u share ur code for shooting while moving? That’s something we’re looking to work on during off-season and would love to see what other teams have done. @alex5572 @aidan5572

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Here is a link to one of the commits where we added it. The commit view isn’t super helpful but it will give you an idea of where to look in our repo for how you would integrate yourself.

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