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Our team can get a perfect score in 1:40. They have an idea which could easily get them to 1:30. They probably didn't even practice more than most teams. They just made the design and controls as intuitive as possible.

It took us about 10 runs to get the perfect scores under 2 minutes, but after constant practice and improvements i have dropped another 30 seconds.

So 3 perfect scores in under 2 minutes already? I wonder how many perfect scores there will be at nats. Do you guys usually go to nationals (Just wondering)?

DaPlug wrote:It took us about 10 runs to get the perfect scores under 2 minutes, but after constant practice and improvements i have dropped another 30 seconds.

Care to share the basic structure of your arm(s)?

Bazinga+ wrote:So 3 perfect scores in under 2 minutes already? I wonder how many perfect scores there will be at nats. Do you guys usually go to nationals (Just wondering)?

Based on the past, Id predict 5-6 perfect scores and maybe ~15 devices capable of theoretically attaining a perfect score.

windu34 wrote:

DaPlug wrote:It took us about 10 runs to get the perfect scores under 2 minutes, but after constant practice and improvements i have dropped another 30 seconds.

Care to share the basic structure of your arm(s)?

If you will share yours with me I can share mine with you. Basically it's one arm, nothing special.

I have two arms that are identical except in height based on the SCARA style design that are controlled via the Master-Slave implementation using arduinos. Controllers are 3D printed with high grade industrial potentiometers in the joints. 2 Arduino Mega's control each of the arms with the base servos on both arms being controlled by a separate Arduino Uno.

I can also score a perfect score in 1:50, could probably go faster though. 1 arm.

I wanted to share my experience from States at NJ. We placed 2nd at the tournament. A few things that I noted:
-The majority of teams suck at building events. (sorry but every year, my theory is confirmed once again)
-For an event like Robot Arm, you need practice and confidence. I saw a couple of arms which weren't exactly great, but they could have gotten a decent score. Without practice, the team got a score of... three points.
-In order to place even in a state like New Jersey, one of the most competitive regions for SCIOLY, you don't need to be perfect. We didn't get close to a perfect score, but we placed second in the state. (In our defense, we didn't have enough money to give the arm a full range of capabilities. It couldn't touch the ping pong balls)
-First place is usually a perfect score, or it is really really close.
-Again, practice, practice, practice.

Overall, I had a great time for this event. This was probably my favorite event for science olympiad ever.

UQOnyx wrote:I wanted to share my experience from States at NJ. We placed 2nd at the tournament. A few things that I noted:
-The majority of teams suck at building events. (sorry but every year, my theory is confirmed once again)
-For an event like Robot Arm, you need practice and confidence. I saw a couple of arms which weren't exactly great, but they could have gotten a decent score. Without practice, the team got a score of... three points.
-In order to place even in a state like New Jersey, one of the most competitive regions for SCIOLY, you don't need to be perfect. We didn't get close to a perfect score, but we placed second in the state. (In our defense, we didn't have enough money to give the arm a full range of capabilities. It couldn't touch the ping pong balls)
-First place is usually a perfect score, or it is really really close.
-Again, practice, practice, practice.

Overall, I had a great time for this event. This was probably my favorite event for science olympiad.

At the NYS science Olympiad competition the scores were pretty high. I doubt an arm that can't get ping pong balls could have been top 15. I think there were like 2-3 perfect scores and like 5 more almost perfect scores.