Spin up turrets?

Just have a turret that disengages and spins its self back around when it spins too far. It does not need to continuously rotate.

That’s our current strategy.

Yep, we didn’t really do anything fancy with the wiring on Horizon. Simple energy chain with a track for it to lay in. The turret there is basically a scaled up version from our 2020 robot Mobius, where you’ll see a similar, but less interesting cable management technique. Both cable management styles would be 118% legal in VRC.

Why not 148%? 148% > 118%

Let’s just say 118 is a special number to the team.

You’d think this would be the case for team 118 :thinking:

r/whoooosh
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118% seems oddly specific.

148 is also an frc + vrc team.

Space cowboys :smiling_imp:
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Wow, I can’t believe that your robot was even able to move. Impossible! Can you show us a video/photo?

2011D in this video used 600rpm 1:1 on 2.75” wheels with a 4 motor drive, and they were fine. Granted, it took a lot of driver skill to control this robot, and it rarely reached max linear speed. Also, the robot was only 10-11lbs. This ratio also has approximately the same linear speed as @anonymous19 ’s 400rpm 4” wheel drive. In my opinion, the loss of acceleration and torque was too big a trade especially when max speed was rarely actually used in matches. 360rpm on 3.25” wheels is my favorite ratio from my experience, since it has a good balance of torque, speed and quick acceleration.

The optical sensor sadly depends on lighting as well.

The optical also has a built-in white led to help detect colors in low light settings.

i think they mean lighting as in colored lights and other stuff.

My robot weighed around 9lbs the acceleration was close to immediate and I never really had I time when I needed torque in this game.

and this year ur gonna do 600rpm 4inch omnis :eyes:

no. already built a 466 rpm drive tho :slight_smile:

4200 RPM drive when
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Whenever someone realizes that the real Meta is going to be 4200 rpm drive, don’t worry we’re ahead of the game :smiling_imp: