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Leo 1529

13-02-2006, 22:27

does you robot load from the bottom up like a lawn mower, or does it load over the top like a conveyor

my team was just wondering...
tnx

Eldarion

13-02-2006, 22:38

does you robot load from the bottom up like a lawn mower, or does it load over the top like a conveyor

my team was just wondering...
tnx
We are loading over the top like a conveyor.

sciencenerd

13-02-2006, 23:54

We have a mechanism that picks balls up from the ground (like a lawn mower) and takes them to the top of the robot, where they are entered into the shooting canal. I guess this would count as a "conveyor belt" type loader?

Chriszuma

13-02-2006, 23:56

well we have designs and a prototype for sucking them off the ground and bottom-feeding them into a big hopper. However, as of this moment our robot doesn't even hold balls, much less pick them up. (We can shoot though, we got rapid fire working today!)

akshar

14-02-2006, 01:09

our bot picks up balls from the back, we used a sim motor to spin wheels, when the ball hits these wheels it get compressed and shot up into a hopper that still need to be built and then into the shooter which is already mounted, not sure what the loader qualifys as

TimCraig

14-02-2006, 01:11

We have a conveyor that picks balls up off the floor and takes them up to the feed system to the shooter. We also (plan to) have a catch net to make it easier for the human players to toss balls in.

Nuttyman54

14-02-2006, 01:29

are we talking about loading balls into the robot or into the shooter?
ours uses a conveyor to bring the balls up, then deposits them in a hopper and delivers them to the shooter at the bottom (assuming we get the launcher built)

bobotics319

14-02-2006, 08:07

human player or other robots

Schneidie

14-02-2006, 12:40

We are loading lawn- mower style into our hopper with 2 rollers and polycord.

paulcd2000

14-02-2006, 16:33

we have a roller in front which will throw the balls up a chute into our open hopper

sdexp

14-02-2006, 23:28

How is "both" for an answer choice?

Our robot has the ability to collect balls from bottom and top.

CraigHickman

15-02-2006, 00:25

There's no option for both...

Our robot has the ability to be "fed" by human players, and to gather balls off the ground. They all end up in a hopper above the shooter, to be fired when we see fit.