Hi guys,
So I’m Kate from 2941A (Oats) . We have been prototyping many different kinds of intakes and lifts since the start of the Skyrise season, and had a double reverse 4 bar until around a week ago, where I took it apart (due to it needing a rebuild). Unfortunately (or fortunately) we have a scrimmage next weekend, so I managed to build a very simple robot in around 4 hours, which featured a completely passive intake (for both cubes and skyrises) that I’ll be using to compete in the next Auckland scrimmage (probably with one of our juniors driving it), and then taking apart asap afterwards.
I thought that those 4 hours would go to waste without a well thought-out and expertly designed reveal…
Well, there’s nothing wrong with simplicity, especially this early in the season. What a lot of teams won’t realize is that strategy is very important too, so even if you’re only using this for your next scrimmage, I can imagine you’ll want to get in plenty of practice using it! Honestly, we’re not even starting our build until around Fall, so even if you’re using a simple design, you’re expending less resources on a bot you know will at least work, and then you can evaluate which designs worked the best overall in your area.
Now Kate, hold on a second. Does it really drive as fast in reverse as it does forward? Not too bad for this early in the season. I’m looking forward to what else the world finalists can come up with.
I know, I know, I’m pretty sure it’s magic… Can’t possibly drive backwards that fast o.o
Looking at Marco(Kristin)'s robot, I’d say there are a lot better robots this early in the season… I’m looking forward to seeing what we come up with too!
Yeah it was made in a few hours before a scrimmage (the scrimmage didn’t count for anything for me, so I wasn’t too bothered with the robot I took), mainly as a joke (the 1:3.2 drive was a lot of fun to drive)…
If anyone’s really that interested, message me on skype (kate-low-56) and I can find some videos for you?