Robot Arm C

[dragonfruit35]

Also, in Robo-Cross, at least using the loophole couldn't get you as many points as actually doing it the traditional way. In this case, I feel like using a car would provide an advantage. It doesn't exactly fit the spirit of the problem, although I do think that this definitely merits a clarification.

How would a car give an advantage? I think the task is significantly easier than using a fixed base arm rather than a separate car. Perhaps using a car is easier at a lower level for those with less resources available, and the event is meant for that initial challenge to exist.

I agree. At lower levels of competition, it may be possible to do well simply by pushing pennies into the target, but at higher levels when flipping the pennies becomes a must, a car would have a significant disadvantage (if it is even possible to place pennies after flipping them accurately with a car equipped with a shovel or scoop of some kind)

Well, you would get a longer reach, correct? With an arm, even though it could technically be up to ~90 cm long, it would get a little unwieldy. I can think of a few ways to do it with a car (remember, stacks of pennies were a thing in Robo-Cross).

On a side note, the weirdest part of any rules I've ever read:
"teams must design, build, document,and test one robotic device to move U.S. Lincoln cents (pennies)"...Um, what other kind of pennies were they using?

[chalker]

"teams must design, build, document,and test one robotic device to move U.S. Lincoln cents (pennies)"...Um, what other kind of pennies were they using?

I can speak to that since I insisted on that specific language. First, the word 'penny' is rather generic. Check out the wikipedia page for Penny: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny It lists 16 different countries that have pennies (which are all different sizes and compositions). And speaking of compositions, if you check out the page about the U.S. penny (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(Un ... ates_coin)) you'll see that there have been at least 10 different compositions over the history of the U.S. Hence, the thing most of us associate nowadays with a penny is officially known as a "U.S. Lincoln Cent".

[windu34]

Well, you would get a longer reach, correct? With an arm, even though it could technically be up to ~90 cm long, it would get a little unwieldy. I can think of a few ways to do it with a car (remember, stacks of pennies were a thing in Robo-Cross).

Yes, but how accurately can you place them over the target with a car?

[dragonfruit35]

Well, you would get a longer reach, correct? With an arm, even though it could technically be up to ~90 cm long, it would get a little unwieldy. I can think of a few ways to do it with a car (remember, stacks of pennies were a thing in Robo-Cross).

Yes, but how accurately can you place them over the target with a car?

Eh, I guess it might be a little less accurate. But in my opinion, a car is A LOT easier to build.

[windu34]

Well, you would get a longer reach, correct? With an arm, even though it could technically be up to ~90 cm long, it would get a little unwieldy. I can think of a few ways to do it with a car (remember, stacks of pennies were a thing in Robo-Cross).

Yes, but how accurately can you place them over the target with a car?

Eh, I guess it might be a little less accurate. But in my opinion, a car is A LOT easier to build.

eh not really

[dragonfruit35]

Yes, but how accurately can you place them over the target with a car?

Eh, I guess it might be a little less accurate. But in my opinion, a car is A LOT easier to build.

eh not really

At any rate, we both agree this merits a clarification, correct?

[windu34]

Eh, I guess it might be a little less accurate. But in my opinion, a car is A LOT easier to build.

eh not really

At any rate, we both agree this merits a clarification, correct?

I think its been made pretty clear that it is a bad idea, but It couldn't hurt to make it official

[dragonfruit35]

eh not really

At any rate, we both agree this merits a clarification, correct?

I think its been made pretty clear that it is a bad idea, but It couldn't hurt to make it official

Yep

[jander14indoor]

Question on car answered on clarification page now.

Jeff Anderson
Livonia, MI

[Bazinga+]

Here is my first Robot of the season:
https://youtu.be/XrnfNRunsq8

Placed 2nd at Islip Invites (Battery was not charged so did much worse than it could have).