[CREDIT TO THESE TEAMS FOR HELPING THIS ROBOT BE REALITY]
590 - Texas City
1815 - CATaclysm
5408 - Sachse High
3674 - RAWR XD
26982 - Alumination Robotics
And all of the TVA teams
[CREDIT TO THESE MENTORS FOR THE HELP]
Col. Tim White (1814) - Primary Mentor
Jobe (590)
Massey (398/400)
Leeson (1815)
I think Connor said somewhere that most of TVA and TVA-C qualified for worlds
But nice robot Connor! The intake is kind of weird, is there a reason you chose to do it like that?
The main reason why we chose this funnel intake is because it’s more efficient on space, lighter than a roller intake, speed is not a variable for this type of intake, it fields wall cones easily, as well as it’s able to pick cones the easiest out of a group of cones.
Hopefully this answers your question
The idea of this intake kind of developed over time…
We started everything out by having a fully passive intake, with a total of 11 our of 12 motors being used on our robot. We were trying to figure out where to put that extra motor, so later on we had the idea to have a passive/active hybrid where the robot can passively intake, passively release, or actively release. Then, after prototyping, we realized that an active release is really inefficient and puts a strain on the lift motors, with the addition that the cone occasionally flies out of the flaps on the back of our previous intake. We then removed the capability to passively release, and now we created what we now call the Funnel Intake
okay, i just wanted to know since my teammate had this intake with a pneumatic release on his first robot. it was extremely effective and was used all year until about a month ago. I was just wondering if somehow it was copied from his.
