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JDogg, that's amazing. We used an Xbox remote for our arm but if we were to do it again, I can see how the master slave system is much better and easier.

Jdogg, how did your raising arm score 1 point before it lifted the ball?
7d) "...The part of the arm used to raise the ping-pong ball must have previously been used to score at least one point..."
also, two parts of the arm were used to raise the ball

plaid suit guy2 wrote:Jdogg, how did your raising arm score 1 point before it lifted the ball?
7d) "...The part of the arm used to raise the ping-pong ball must have previously been used to score at least one point..."
also, two parts of the arm were used to raise the ball

At around 2:03 in the youtube video, a PVC pipe is moved into the north zone using the motor on the height task only. if you notice at that moment, the arm that Jdogg is holding is not moving but the arm itself is, and the height task is raising. He forgot to do it earlier in the run, so he took one out of the box to do it later.

Jdogg wrote:Yeah, winning team had a score of 100.12. <SNIP>

I wasn't going to give that level of details without permission, but since you posted it, I can confirm that was the top score.

plaid suit guy2 wrote:<SNIP>ok, our team (3rd place) should have had 95.2 points. I'll probably get corrected at some point

No, you calculated it right. That was the third place score.

In case folks don't have pictures, I have pictures of all the devices taken during check in, but won't post unless requested by the team.

Jeff Anderson
Livonia, MI

What i see is the small arm retrieves the ball from the bucket, and returns the pipe to the east side. The partner briefly overrides Jay's control using his control box, and moves the pipe into the north zone with the small arm while the large arm continues to do it's own thing, then control is returned to Jay, and he places the pipe into the bucket, the part of the arm doing the raising (ie: the large arm) still having never touched or influenced any pieces, then the small arm lifts the ball to complete the run, before dropping it into the large arm, at this point the large arm rises. The large arm did not raise the ball from the ground or score a single other point itself. The partner influenced pieces and only scored the bonus points.

To finish, 7b states that you only receive points at the end of the run. 7e also says this.
as my regionals supervisor so elegantly put it after a team tried that, "I look at the field, and I see all the things in buckets. Where is this north zone point at the end of the run?" In this case the answer is: it's not there, it was moved to the bucket, scored by the small arm under Jay's control.

plaid suit guy2 wrote: To finish, 7b states that you only receive points at the end of the run. 7e also says this.
as my regionals supervisor so elegantly put it after a team tried that, "I look at the field, and I see all the things in buckets. Where is this north zone point at the end of the run?" In this case the answer is: it's not there, it was moved to the bucket, scored by the small arm under Jay's control.

With all due respect to your regionals supervisor it would seem like the folks at nationals think otherwise. Also, by that definition it is impossible for something to 'previously' have received points(since points are only given at the end of the run), thus rendering the rules about the height task previously receiving points invalid.

We took "previously" as having been responsible for some other point that is extant upon completion of the run (ie.: one of the pencils in a box, or things like that.) In fact that was the only reason we decided not to have a balloon raise the ball to the ceiling, because the ball would be moved into the north zone by the balloon, and then be lifted a good 6 metres up.

I'll also add that whenever the bridge is balanced, vg=0, ALWAYS. This is the definition of a balanced bridge.

plaid suit guy2 wrote:We took "previously" as having been responsible for some other point that is extant upon completion of the run (ie.: one of the pencils in a box, or things like that.) In fact that was the only reason we decided not to have a balloon raise the ball to the ceiling, because the ball would be moved into the north zone by the balloon, and then be lifted a good 6 metres up.

well we see "previously" meaning different things, and in the end it was decided as being legal by jander14indoor, who had more than his fair share of words written into the rules.
And the whole balloon thing wouldnt come to a realistic stable equilibrium as required by the rules (cant site the specific one without rules by me)
On that note, Mr. Anderson, I saw that there was a team trying to USE a balloon, but then wasnt in the 1 meter height limit, stumbled around for an hour and cut one of them out. If they had time/skill to have actually hoisted up the pingpong ball with the balloon, did they give you a satisfactory rationalization to USE it?
I should have introduced myself, but you seemed busy with actually competing persons, but I was there for the majority of the robot arm day

Sorry, I'm adding an edit onto this post to talk about another point of the post before describing the run from plaid guy. The rules say that the part of the arm used to raise AKA a motor, must be used to score a point. Not that the motor itself has to ever touch the ball. So the motor used to turn the "small arm" into the northern zone WAS the same motor used on the "big arm" (which isnt really an arm at all) since the base motor was disengaged and the height task motor was engaged.
Thus, the "large arm" was part of the system used to score the point, thus scoring, itself, a point.

Question. When was a tethered balloon ruled out? I can see putting a ball on the balloon, shoving the balloon towards the north zone, letting it cross in to score a point, and then just rising up till it reaches the tether height.

jander14indoor wrote:

Jdogg wrote:Yeah, winning team had a score of 100.12. <SNIP>

I wasn't going to give that level of details without permission, but since you posted it, I can confirm that was the top score.

plaid suit guy2 wrote:<SNIP>ok, our team (3rd place) should have had 95.2 points. I'll probably get corrected at some point

No, you calculated it right. That was the third place score.

In case folks don't have pictures, I have pictures of all the devices taken during check in, but won't post unless requested by the team.

Jeff Anderson
Livonia, MI

You can post pictures of my arm online if you want to. I liked the picture of Ward Melville's arm last year. I don't like being secret about my stuff, cause in the end it comes down to how much time you've spent with it and how much effort you put into your device.

plaid suit guy2 wrote:Jdogg, how did your raising arm score 1 point before it lifted the ball?
7d) "...The part of the arm used to raise the ping-pong ball must have previously been used to score at least one point..."
also, two parts of the arm were used to raise the ball

Yeah, So I think Iwonder and Hmcginny have covered the how it scored 1 point. Plus every part of the arm used to raise the pingpong ball scored at least 1 point during the run, or you can say the entire device is my arm. Plus, I would say nobody would score a point with the height task because by your definition I would say that you could only use 1 motor to raise the pingpong ball. Although these are only my opinion's, and believe that many other people have agreed with this interpretation. I know Mr.Steven had the same principal employed on his arm as well.

iwonder wrote:JDogg, that's amazing. We used an Xbox remote for our arm but if we were to do it again, I can see how the master slave system is much better and easier.

Thanks, It's a lot of effort but really easy to use when your done. Though we had some serious controls on our control box that allowed us to control a few other things. For example changing the wrist up/down motion of the arm, locking the shoulder, turning of the base rotation, turning on the height task, and a few other controls that allowed our arm to have a easier time picking up the objects on the edge of the arena.