Honestly I don’t know. We decided to stack on stacks from the every beginning of the season, it took us a very long time to get it working, and I’ve thought about giving up on this for more than 1000 times. The 9 cube capacity tray is a transition, if we find out stacking on stacks is not competitive enough, we are willing to give up stacking on stacks and be a normal tray lift. We rebuild the robot a week ago to make it a 9 cube capacity tray lift, at first we didn’t think it can stack on stacks, but after we tried it for fun we figured that it can still do it. So we included that in our reveal.
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I know that Sarah is both on my alliance and not in my region, but this legitimately scares me. @Nathan_Rossi please reassure me by restating what you said about making robots look good in reveals.
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Sounds like what I would do XD
But I just want to say y’all will do very well this season. Good luck!
The Resistance team 86868 had a 3 motor drive during Turning Point and they did really well. But their multi-functionality made their drivetrain weak enough where driving speed and lack of torque made it difficult in eliminations. They are a really good team and they won WPI though, so it’s definitely possible to make it very far this season!
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This robot is absolutely amazing! Great work. This is one of the best, if not the best bot that I have seen so far for TT and may very well be the case for the entire season!
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Truly amazing robot and great reveal!
I counted 12 cube stack! Can you do more?
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we can stack 6 on 7. we haven’t tried stacking more than 6 cubes on existing stacks yet
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Nice how it picks up a line of the pre-stacked cubes without knocking the bottom cube out of the way (happened a lot of the times I saw a hybrid bot try it when watching recorded matches).
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and the rise of drb4 traybots begin
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How’d you guys get the stages to flip in and how does the slider work?
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This is kinda nuts, great job guys!
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Very impressive! That intake speed is 10/10
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This makes us feel bad. This is amazing. Congrats.
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Quite a robot! You guys are ahead of the curve. I expect stacking on stacks will become more and more commonplace as designs begin to converge on the singular meta.
Stacking on stacks allows for versatility, especially in quals when you haven’t a clue who you’ll be with or against ahead of time.
At some point, we’ll see the point of diminishing returns between tray size and intake speed. If we still want larger stacks at that point, we’ll need to stack on stacks. Additionally, having the capability to do so means that you can very quickly intake about 7 cubes, rather than having to slowly intake 14.
However, a point against stacking on stacks, which its opponents have adamently pointed out, is that there are only 66 cubes on the field. Ideally, you want to stack most of them for yourself, but your opponents will get quite a few for themselves. An average 6 stacks of ten is 60 cubes, leaving 6 for tower play.
So that could be a point against stacking on stacks and the extra motors required to do so.
Despite this, however, I do think that stacking on stacks and the versatility it allows is worth the aforementioned drawbacks thereof.
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I don’t really get the 3 m drive is it a straight line booster?
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yes it is. I think the additional speed is necessary
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yup, my team is either gonna build a lift and put it on after we are done or stay non lift.
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do you think you could go into more detail on your front wheels? I could be wrong but they didnt look like normal wheels.
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If ur talking abt the crosses, I think those allow the robot to go over the little barrier around the scoring zone
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you mean the anti tips? those are plastic wheel legs
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