Our team has been doing a lot, and I mean A LOT, of research on the claws that we are hearing of here on forums. So i have a question.
How are people scoring far zone with a claw that is forward facing? (Not a backwards dumper bot)
Please and thank you
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I’ve saw a team that had a piston that would push out the stars into the far zone when the claw opened. It was timed with the opening of the claw. The claw used a total of three pistons (two for the claw and one for the pusher)
I’ve seen some teams with a mini ‘catapult’ on the end of their arm that throws the stars into the far zone.
How long does the air last?
Not very long. Only about two thirds of a round
You don’t need this any sort of catapult-claw. We have a 1:5 high speed (1:3.125 compound) lift and some code to automatically open the claw when the lift gets to the right position and we usually score far zone.
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At one point I had an auto releasing claw that scored far zone most of the time, but I found that just a bit of driving practice was much more reliable because different groups of objects should be released at different positions. Especially if you need to throw a cube over a stalled alliance partner last second (Which happens a surprising amount).
I can still do it manually if I want to.