*four bar
That’s true. @Avery_8675A what’s your reasoning on switching to a 4 bar?
OK a majority of the reasoning for the switch was we wanted to test ideas going into regionals here in Nebraska/Iowa. We chose the 4-bar because we could push it even faster then the chainbar, as well as, it is lighter. Plus we could increase the distance on each side from the stack.
The roller intake was because we think after some more tweaking we can have less error then our claw, and it can be faster.
We what to try and find what will have a fast cycle time and high reliability when it comes to a intake and secondary lift. Hence the rollers and four bar.
Right now we are also prototyping a passive intake to test if we might use one.
Great video and amazing alliance! Have you experimented at all with autonomously stacking cones from the loader? It has helped us out a lot in terms of reliability and speed.
Not much, we were in a pinch to complete the bot in time for the competition, same with this weekend. Before we changed some things on the robot we were testing a simple auto stacking code for 8 cones I believe, but it was faster at that point to do it with driver control.
I noticed 8675A only has two motors on their lift now, were you guys able to maintain your turbo ratio or did you have to downgrade to high speed?
We are now running his mug speed. With a faster four bar and a lighter dr4b it is not any slower cycle time.