Pinch Roller Cone Intake
One of our students devised an elegant solution for a game object mechanism that deals with both balls and cones. The circles are tubes, and it intakes cones from the top. Here is a very early prototype:
Elevator + Slider
This is one of our favorite sketches of a robot that can reach the top cone-scoring location and do most of the top items on our priority list.
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The Slanted Elevator allows you to reach further as you raise the carriage.
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The slider lets you extend towards the mid and top rows.
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We use the length of the cone to reduce the extension needed to reach the top cone locations.
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The cone pinch intake doubles as a ball intake
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A flywheel/roller would let us launch balls to score them quickly in auton.
New things in the manual
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District points for playoffs are official, according to the manual.
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The 5th/6th and 7th/8th placed alliances don’t receive any Advancement Points
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The points for each team are awarded based on the percentage of your alliance’s match wins that your team played in. So for an alliance without a backup robot, everyone gets 100% of the ALLIANCE Advancement Points.
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If a backup robot were to play 1 of 4 match wins for the alliance, they would receive 25% of the Advancement Points, and the team they replaced for that match would receive 75% of the Advancement Points.
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Playoff tiebreakers are only Tech Fouls and not all fouls
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This is a good improvement.
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New Champs Division Names
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We believe the Milstein division is honoring César Milstein, and the Johnson division is honoring Katherine Johnson, but we haven’t seen an announcement yet.
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R304 Blue Box
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It’s now explicitly written that “running a 3D printer or other automated manufacturing processes overnight producing ROBOT parts” is against the rules.
Source: Spectrum