Parking strategies?

Any parking strats that I could use?

Match mirrors with the car in front, turn your wheel right 360, reverse at a 45° angle, then turn your wheel left to pivot.

…drive into the park zone?

& take this logic but hold the steering wheel at the bottom if you’re pulling a trailer!

Oh of course, why didn’t I think of that, thank you!!!

Just drive into it… also don’t try and hit a spin move while doing this or your aligner will shatter :skull:

Double park mech using your preload makes double and single park very quick and easy. I’ll link a vid and photo if needed, but you’d need to build it and it’s not really a strategy.

I’m not sure what country you live in, but taking up two parking spots is unwelcome and sometimes illegal.

If it’s an automatic, put it in park. If it’s a manual, pull the handbrake and put it in either first or reverse, depending on the slope of the ground (if you’re parked uphill use first, downhill use reverse). Make sure it’s off before you put it in gear or else it’ll stall, which is bad for the car. Try to be inside the lines, because being outside is generally frowned upon and raises your chances of being hit.

I tried but I couldnt figure out the double park because my bot is kinda built as a basket bot, so I couldnt find a spot on it and how to do it because it takes a long time and my last copetition is in on saturday febuary 7th.

Here’s a showcase of a robot with a pretty compact parking design that might be a good inspiration for you.

Good luck at your competition!



Ooh yeah you’re definitely not going to have enough time to build, test, tune, and notebook that…

Instead I would say since you have a basket bot, you could do something like pika pika and hold your max capacity near the end and do a last second score then you just wouldn’t park, but your teammate could. (i’m guessing you already knew this bc you have a basket and probably watched pika pika… just throwing ideas out.)

our coach said we dont need notebooks and we give no effort so no tuning and minimal testing, then could I get it done by the next competition?

Maybe, but you likely have to bring it home with you to get some of it done.

I did that the photos are from home, but I just need to know what to do and how to do it, I just need a ton of reference photos, or videos on how to do it

Does anyone have anything that would work, or photos

Um you could definitely build one in about a week but I insist on testing AND notebooking. You miss out on a lot of judged awards without a notebook.

Is there a reason why y’all don’t use one?

You don’t rlly have enough time to change much on your bot with it still being done by tmr. I wouldn’t bother with double park if I was you because it’s not rlllly meta much anymore. If I was you I’d play some hard defense in matches and let your alliance park

I found out about robotics and wanted to join a few months in and then I invited friends and we made our own team, so my team is a few months behind, the other teams went to 4 other competitions and we have only gone to one.