This year's challenge is called Rebound Rumble (the video can be seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzpoMzLMhcw ). It involves a basketball component and then teams can balance on three different ramps at the end of the match to get more points.
After reading the manual the first thing that we did was come up with a list of what we Must Have, Want to Have, and things that would be Cool But Not Necessary. Here is the list below:
Must Have
Drivetrain
Shooting or Dunking
Pick up balls from floor
Hold 3 balls
Angle/Height adjustment if we have a shooter or dunker
CAD of the robot
Want to Have
Short length (to make it easier to put three robots on one ramp)
Drive over bump (maybe pneumatic tires?)
Tipper for bump
Kinect, targeting hoops (aiming)
Computer controlled shooter
Low to ground
Get balls to driver side
Defense
Shoot quickly
Parking break
Cool but not necessary
Pretty (powder coating)
Flying
Bball jerseys
We then came up with the following list of strategies:
Distraction
Blocking
Short
Be the last person on the ramp
Passing/Kicker
Fast
High Torque drive train
Balance
Automated Shooting
Dunking
Attach to other robots
Look at FTC from last year and robots from 1717 and 254 from 2009
Communicate with opposite alliances
Accelerometer for feedback on balance
We then broke into groups to brainstorm specific ideas for the robot. Tomorrow we are going to get the materials for the game pieces and start building them. Good luck to all of the teams!
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