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Thanks! It was great competing with you. Your robot was awesome!

We would have been very happy to be with HOW, as we've done very well when allied with them in the past (like at the qualifier). We would have happily accepted if selected by them. But when you're ranked #10, you're not in the driver seat, and we're happy to have competed with Binary as well. If 2nd picked team would have been eligible for Worlds, a Binary > HOW > Technophobia team would have been fun, and hard to beat!

We've put him in a straightjacket for subsequent matches.

it's either time or encoder clicks. If we haven't spotted the junction by, say 600 encoder clicks, we assume we missed it. In practice the only time it's every not seen the junction is when the sensor disconnected, so we're going to switch to "park-only" when that happens to at least recover a few points.

Thanks! You're correct about ownership. We have both strategies and decide which to use based on a number of factors. It's important to consider that if you put 25 cones on tall junctions, that's 125 points that no one can take away, but ownership and circuits require more time per cone, and are both susceptible to the other team taking points back.

Our testing has found that you're OK with 12 or 13 cones. If you knock it over it'll come back. Definitely teams in our league are thinking about this.

@@technophobiaftc I refereed a tournament recently where 10 comes was the tipping point, especially when banged by another bot. I think it's because the fields, towards qualifying time in North Texas, are worn out.

@@hassankarim7084 then we'll have to make sure our opponents, not us, knock it over! :)

We saw your "Behind the Bot" episode recently. Great work! We like your horizontal slide

For dropping at the junction? We look for the junction, and then when we find it, we make some corrections before dropping.

it's a 2m distance sensor

I think most teams are aware of that defensive possibility. We have other approaches that are slightly slower if a team were to squeeze in there to place it. But with a well-matched team, we're going to run out of cones before we run out of time.

they used the camera. I don't think a color sensor will reach that far

It's interesting how they ADD points for penalties, not subtract!

We have a custom gyro drive function, just using proportional control. We made it drive in an arc by changing the drive angle. For localization, it's pretty simple, too. If you find the white line on the mat, drive into the wall, and use your IMU, you know exactly where you are and know which way you're facing. So every time we drive into or out of the warehouse, we know where we are.

Our code isn't all that interesting. We just have a basic proportional gyro drive. But the key to making it fast like this is to vary your angle as the drive progresses, so you get a nice smooth arc. No fancy math or anything.

but if you'd like to talk through anything or work together, drop us an email. We're taking a break for a while but we'll get back to it.

yes, just the motor encoders, no dead wheel. We use a color sensor to find the white line at the warehouse, and we hit the wall so we know where we are. Sometimes, this autonomous actually stacks the cubes on top of each other on the hub.

I'd imagine they're very close to the maximum, but they have a lot of equipment and folds out, slides, etc. It's interesting how big of a slide they're able to get in the required dimensions.

we were glad we got a chance to ally with them. Since they could cross the barrier, we were both able to play the allied hub at once after switching away from shared hub.

We use the drive encoders on our motors and we use our own custom gyro drive function to drive around in Autonomous.

thanks! we're looking forward to seeing your lift in person. But we're not looking forward to battling you on shared hub. Nice work yesterday!

we made some simple 3D printed pulleys with a deep groove

We created the gripper ourselves, and made the fingers long, to make the range of where we can grab the wobble goal from wider.

"Poly cord" - similar to this: www.revrobotics.com/rev-41-1164/

They are made of silicone, and they are available for purchase from AndyMark

6,000 RPM, using a REV ultraplanetary motor without any of the attachments.

We are working on that now. Thank you for the suggestion.

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we made our intake much faster while back, and now we're working on speeding up the conveyor. Your advice has helped up a bunch!

@@technophobiaftc Awesome!!!

what does that even mean? I can't think of any explanation after googling I think basically: speed of robot = s circumfrence of intake = c seconds per round = r 2s = c / r