A fair bit of work has gone on since we took the robot for a trial scrimmage a week ago. Things continue to break and be fixed, with the trend going towards the latter. This is a pretty complicated critter this time around.
In general, the mechanical side has proven very robust. One major design decision early needed to be revisited. We now acquire the game pieces by a roll in from the side system. It works pretty well but is still rather janky lookin'.
The team member standing on the desk is just being prudent. There have been a few interesting events, such as when the on board gyroscope failed.....
We have some swell looking bumpers this year.
The primary mission of the robot is acquiring those white plastic pipe sections and parking them on various levels of the "tree". We are actually best at the highest branch. This is also the most points.
At the start of each match there are these big green bouncy balls in the way. They need to be removed, with some points gained by parking them in a slot. At the practice event we did not see this attempted often. Or done well. Here's our method:
So....how's it gonna play out in Duluth later in the week? If we don't break anything major, and if the various lighting and orientation markers are similar to what we practiced with, we should do OK. Then we'll have a few weeks to tune up, fix up, or if necessary, tear up before we get to do it all over again.
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