The Pentium Guy
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First place.
Savage soccer is WPI's mini robotics competition where you have 3 different things on a field: pool balls (3 of them), tennis balls (10-15 of them, not sure), penny rolls (mounted on these towers so that they're hard to reach)
Without goign into too many details, I can say that you have to essentially pick up these items and put them into a crate which tips a pendulum. Depending on the orientation of the pendulum, points are given (obviously the closer it is to your side, the more points you guys get)
I have pics, just click the links that follow
The thing was given to us 4 weeks ago, we didn't start the thing till yesterday night. With a scoop to pick up and the balls, and flip them into the buckets.....we had a simple but effective design
Competition was intense, Here's a picture of a round in which EVERY BALL was clear from the field and loaded onto crates. The first 15 seconds of every round was autonomous mode..... and our robot just went for a pool ball and loaded it onto a scoop every time....clicky. Robots flipped over (we lost one match because of that, but we won the rounds, which were best of 3) and banged into each other.
Final round was insane. It was best of 3, and the score was 1-1.....we somehow managed to squeezer a tight victory in the very last few seconds .
I love our school, for most of the game the scoreboard was like this: We're team 17.
And a few more pics to keep you guys entertained:
round where we loaded a TON of balls into the crate and tilted the pendulum a lot
^-- balls were about to overflow from the crate
Final picture
8AM to 8PM yesterday, an entire saturday gone, but it was damn worth it.
Lessons learned:
-In a 2 minute competition, there's no point in having your robot try to accomplish multiple goals at once, have it perform a specific goal
-Last minute work is always good.
-Mechanical problems = bad.
For the most part, I really have to applaud other team's efforts. Man, they put a lot of work into their robots, a lot of them were simply better than ours. Creativity is key. 36 teams were entered into the competition, and each of their designs were extremely unique. Seriously, some awesome ideas out there.
Anyone else on Anandtech go to this competition or participate in it?
-The Pentium Guy
First place.
Savage soccer is WPI's mini robotics competition where you have 3 different things on a field: pool balls (3 of them), tennis balls (10-15 of them, not sure), penny rolls (mounted on these towers so that they're hard to reach)
Without goign into too many details, I can say that you have to essentially pick up these items and put them into a crate which tips a pendulum. Depending on the orientation of the pendulum, points are given (obviously the closer it is to your side, the more points you guys get)
I have pics, just click the links that follow
The thing was given to us 4 weeks ago, we didn't start the thing till yesterday night. With a scoop to pick up and the balls, and flip them into the buckets.....we had a simple but effective design
Competition was intense, Here's a picture of a round in which EVERY BALL was clear from the field and loaded onto crates. The first 15 seconds of every round was autonomous mode..... and our robot just went for a pool ball and loaded it onto a scoop every time....clicky. Robots flipped over (we lost one match because of that, but we won the rounds, which were best of 3) and banged into each other.
Final round was insane. It was best of 3, and the score was 1-1.....we somehow managed to squeezer a tight victory in the very last few seconds .
I love our school, for most of the game the scoreboard was like this: We're team 17.
And a few more pics to keep you guys entertained:
round where we loaded a TON of balls into the crate and tilted the pendulum a lot
^-- balls were about to overflow from the crate
Final picture
8AM to 8PM yesterday, an entire saturday gone, but it was damn worth it.
Lessons learned:
-In a 2 minute competition, there's no point in having your robot try to accomplish multiple goals at once, have it perform a specific goal
-Last minute work is always good.
-Mechanical problems = bad.
For the most part, I really have to applaud other team's efforts. Man, they put a lot of work into their robots, a lot of them were simply better than ours. Creativity is key. 36 teams were entered into the competition, and each of their designs were extremely unique. Seriously, some awesome ideas out there.
Anyone else on Anandtech go to this competition or participate in it?
-The Pentium Guy
