2014 | Sir Gawain

Quick Facts

  • Name: Sir Gawain

  • Year: 2014

  • Weight: 105 lbs

  • Programming Language: Labview

  • Status: Decommissioned 

  • Game: Aerial Assist

  • Size: 26.75″ x 36.75″ x 60″

  • Competition History

    • Lake Superior: Spirit Award
    • 10000 Lakes: Chairman’s, Entrepreneurship Award
    • World Competition: Curie Division, Imagery Award

  • Features

    • Drive Train
      • Swerve during competition season
      • Tank during off-season
      • Single Speed 10ft/s
      • Swerve: 6″ KOP Wheels
      • Tank: Andymark 6″ Omni Wheels
    • Launcher
      • During Regional play pin-release piston puncher
      • Worlds & Beyond: Two MiniCIM catapult
    • Intake
      • Single active intake roller
      • 2 4″ green Banebots wheels with 4 red intake stars

Competition Rankings

Lake Superior Regional

Rank 33 of 57

Minnesota North Star Regional

Rank 48 of 60

Curie Division

Rank 99 of 100

Season Challenges:

  • We attempted to create a very ambitious drive train this year. Through our attempt at swerve drive, we discovered that although we are very talented at creating west coast drives, swerve is not our expertise.
  • We also ran into issues with charging our pneumatic. Each time we used our catapult it would cause us to lose most of our pressure, requiring time to wait for it recharge in order to fire it again.