We are sad to say farewell to ME250, but we will leave you with some parting words…
Our team was seventh seed overall starting the competition on Wednesday. We dominated our first match with the other team not scoring at all. However, in our second match we did not score. We reached the flipper first but were over powered by the other machine. We were disappointed we never got to compete against a top robot to deploy our defensive strategy. Overall, we were happy with our performance.
Our final design was remarkably similar to our initial idea. From the beginning our plan was to focus on quality manufacturing and not on winning the competition. Due to time constraints some of our manufacturing fell short of quality for which we were striving. However, our robot preformed exactly how we design and we could not be prouder.
Here are some photos of our final robot and a video of our competitions.
Round One
All I could bear recording of Round Two!
Looking back, we could have design our machine differently. The concepts utilized by Team Boss were unbeatable. The ideas of using a spring loaded flipper opener and a ramp to get the balls into the slot were brilliant.
Here is a link to the final Bill of Materials
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AjuRz9rabCdLdFJCcUpGMjI4XzRhWXZkdUtiZXlxUFE&output=html
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