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Built for: Breakaway
Built: 2010
Name: Kick Kat
Description: Created for the 2010 game, Kick Kat rocks, sucks, and kicks balls.
Drive: 4-wheel 2 sided 3-Axis arcade
Functions: grabs balls with a modified shop-vac and then kicks them into the goal with a bar attached to pneumatic cylinder that has a foot on it.
Controlled by: 2 Joysticks (one drive, one control)
Controller: 2009 NI cRIO FRC Edition. Remotely controlled by 2010 Classmate PC running the NI DriverStation sofware and our ZomB dashboard over WiFi (802.11n to Gaming adapter) or Ethernet
Features: Dead reckoning in Auto scores fairly consistently, Operator Control has a heavily dampen drive and turn (6 dimensional graph needed), and a ball caught sensor. Camera feed also available during matches. Fast and strong.
Status: In Retirement