Holy shit it's benjamin gates

I’m one of the designer. So basically it’s the same except we have a much smaller bot, wider intake and 2910 uses belts and strings for the telescoping tube while we only use belts. Oh ya 2910 has 4 motors for the arm and 2 motors for extension. We didn’t go that crazy so we hav 2 for arm and 1 for extension

Also from speaking to 2910 at Champs, it sounds like ours is a bit easier to repair as well. Belt swap can be performed in 48 minutes, and a full arm swap takes about 45 (one person). Also, we are able to score all 3 levels on both sides of the robot, as well as do HP pickups at the double station regardless of robot orientation. We look at the gyro angle on the NavX and the arm automatically picks which way to extend depending on the robot's heading, which improves our cycle time. The team has a lot of ideas on how to improve the bot before offseason, which we will be looking to implement in the coming months.

@@FIRSTTeam696 I was wondering, how do you guys swap the belts for your arm?, you open the tube or something like that? (amazing robot btw!)

@@josuea.espinozadiaz9651 Thanks! We added an access panel in the first stage 4x3 box tube that gives us access to the internal belt clamp holding the belt to the second stage. When we unscrew that, the main belt comes out and can be replaced. We mark our spare belts so we don't have to count the number of teeth in the pit because where you clamp the belt determines your max travel. (luckily we have never broke a belt other than in testing)

Another difference is 2910 has a modified SDS mk4i that has a higher gear ratio for faster speed, which is why we were so fast and also why our TBA photo is of our robot "flying" over the charge station (also, it was nice seeing you guys on our flight home, we love your robot)

The three robots are designed for the FIRST Robotics Competition and are built from scratch apart from motors and electronics

I believe they knew they were in the same division. And thus knew they were some of the top teams in that division and happened to be close to eachother

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In 2019 254 hosted 971, 973, 1323, 1678, and possibly some I forgot before champs and we all drove together and played defense with our extra bots. 973 and 1323 knew they would be in the same alliance so they spent all their time together and ended up winning champs together. Driver coordination is a very underrated asset in playoffs, especially when you have very fast cycling bots like 1323 and 4414 do here