Pushbots are actually amazing

[Bobtheblob_5327B]

Was this just an experiment, or are you planning on keeping this design for future competitions?

[SamuelC_7842D]

@SamuelC (7842D)

This happened at the south island challenge in BC yesterday.
Our H team just had a 4 motor pusher bot, but they were able to rank 8th and ended up as the 5th alliance captain. I saw their opponents snickering at the fact that they were going up against a pushbot in the semifinals, but they went on to beat the fourth and then first place alliances making it into the finals :d

I just realized that the person on 7842H who drove that pushbot yesterday was also named cameron.

That means that two people named Cameron drove pushbots at different competitions on the west coast of North America on the same day, became the alliance captains of tournament finalist alliance.

If that isn’t a co-incidence, I don’t know what is.

[Michael_Nutt]

@SamuelC (7842D)

I just realized that the person on 7842H who drove that pushbot yesterday was also named cameron.

That means that two people named Cameron drove pushbots at different competitions on the west coast of North America on the same day, became the alliance captains of tournament finalist alliance.

If that isn’t a co-incidence, I don’t know what is.

How does one go about changing their name to Cameron. I want to get in on this coincidence

[Cameron_Schiller]

@Bobtheblob - 5327B

How does one go about changing their name to Cameron. I want to get in on this coincidence

Just for fun, but now looking at how good pushing is, we will probably be adding more power to our drive.

Also some people have been PM’ing me about gear ratio’s and what not.

Its literally a pushbot. With 4, 4" wheels, direct drive hs geared together like the vex claw bot.

[pwnageNick]

@Cameron Schiller

Just for fun, but now looking at how good pushing is, we will probably be adding more power to our drive.

Also some people have been PM’ing me about gear ratio’s and what not.

Its literally a pushbot. With 4, 4" wheels, direct drive hs geared together like the vex claw bot.

Do you know the weight on it? Also I couldn’t tell in the video but I am wondering if you had something that ran into the wall to prevent you from driving too far under or if good driving just prevented that.

[Kevin_Boenisch]

@pwnageNick

Do you know the weight on it? Also I couldn’t tell in the video but I am wondering if you had something that ran into the wall to prevent you from driving too far under or if good driving just prevented that.

If you fullscreen the video you can see two C-Channels sticking up to prevent that. I honestly couldn’t see being able to drive that without it, spending way too much time trying to be careful.

[pwnageNick]

@Kevin Boenisch

If you fullscreen the video you can see two C-Channels sticking up to prevent that. I honestly couldn’t see being able to drive that without it, spending way too much time trying to be careful.

Yeah after watching again I saw him slam the posts against the wall on the far side once.

[Maverick]

@Krathik

Wow, cameron, great moves. Keep it up. Proud of you.

Interesting choice of name. I was confused for a second there…

[AppleDavidJeans]

I can attest to the power of pushbots. One of my school district’s middle school’s teams has a pushbot that vaulted itself into the 2nd place spot after qualification matches at one of my high school’s tournaments. I was amazed at that feat, especially that coming from a rookie team.

[anon50541363]

@AppleDavidJeans

I can attest to the power of pushbots. One of my school district’s middle school’s teams has a pushbot that vaulted itself into the 2nd place spot after qualification matches at one of my high school’s tournaments.

But one of our teams with a push-bot, won the comp

[Cameron_Schiller]

@pwnageNick

Do you know the weight on it? Also I couldn’t tell in the video but I am wondering if you had something that ran into the wall to prevent you from driving too far under or if good driving just prevented that.

We actually built the robot out of habit in aluminum, (about 5-6lbs) than realized it had no traction, so we strapped a bunch of steel to (now 13lbs)

Still super light

Yeah we had 2 pieces sticking up so we could slam against the wall.

[Manitha]

comp in less than 5 days, building one

[Cameron_Schiller]

This should help some teams.

RISE OF THE PUSHBOTS

[anon50541363]

have you tried turbo gearing
could just make it faster

[mickeyds9471]

@JustinM

We have talked of doing this,
there is a team in Arizona that also has a linear slide pusher that can push the stars even farther under the fence.

Nice Job

They might do 8 motor drive with 4 motor extender now

[meng]

@Cameron Schiller

… And meanwhile… @Cameron Schiller is building an anti-pushbot robot…

[AcidEpicice]

@Cameron Schiller

This should help some teams.

RISE OF THE PUSHBOTS

Hey, why did you take apart your RI3D robot? We were modeling our robot after that… was it not good?

[AppleDavidJeans]

@AcidEpicice

Hey, why did you take apart your RI3D robot? We were modeling our robot after that… was it not good?

I think they still have that stowed somewhere.

[Kevin_Boenisch]

Did you never try pushing the cubes into the near zone because it would just compress and push them into the tiles, making it impossible/hard to move them?

[TEAM_LEGEND]

Obviously all pushbots are not created equal, awesome job Cameron.

• Austin