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New video up showing videos of the development and testing of our frisbee hopper and indexing mechanism. Also the begining stages of the shooter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1hTG...SDSA& index=1

Be sure to join in the chat, there are dozens of people in there chatting and watching us work on the webcam.

http://www.robotin3days.com/livestream

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I'm officially a fangirl of iR3 and Team 1902 (especially their mentors)
If I ever see you, I'm taking a picture with you and getting your autograph. You have been warned.

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Can you give us a more detailed idea of consistency and distance of the second shooter? Also what was the difference between the RPM of the two wheels? You guys are making prototyping so much easier! We appreciate what you are doing!

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fan club.

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Here is a video we just uploaded of the shooter. You can see in the video the consistency. For reference the last video taken the tent pole is ~15' from the shooter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyE4I...ature=youtu.be

Subscribe to the YouTube page so you don't have to wait for us to link here!

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Thanks! But just to be clear this isn't a project of Team 1902, it's completely an iR3 enterprise. (We're not quite that crazy )

All of the people working on the project have worked with the team before, (Dan, Robby, and Andrew are all 1902 mentors) and while the team is helping as much as we can, we are still building our 2013 competition robot separately.

As much as I wish Bacon could take credit for this amazing idea, in reality it's the involvement and influence of great people like the iR3 crew that helped make Bacon into the team it is today.

Keep up the great work guys! Everything seems to be coming together nicely :D

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Oh man. That is interesting about the upside down frisbees. Thanks for addressing that.

Hopefully our prototypes produce similar results so we don't have to deal with orientation.

- Sunny G.

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No appreciable difference in orientation...that's interesting. Can you clarify what exactly was taking chunks out of the frisbee? Was it hitting the c-channel or was it the wheels itself actually?

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I've been following the stream and youtube and what you guys are doing is fantastic. I really hope everyone, especially rookies, can see this. It's a very simple but effective design that would probably do well at most events. Keep up the good work!

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You guys are doing a great service to the FRC community, especially rookie and teams with few mentors. All three of my young teams will be learning from you guys this week, thanks for sharing! BTW - you guys are crazy trying this, but it shows what can be done with planning, support, and a careless approach to the need for sleep! I just gotta give you guys a very loud "Oink, Oink.... Boom!" For what you are doing! Best of luck!

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Thank you, everyone, for all your support the past few days. The fun chat conversations and phone calls have turned this into a really great experience so far.

It's mostly from the spinning wheel. If a frisbee gets "stuck" for any moment of time from being compressed while touching the wheel it will take a little off.

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We started to get a lot of similar questions so I went ahead and wrote a post to give a bit of a snapshot of where we are at now. We posted a few more videos today on our YouTube channel and a lot of the questions we have been receiving are discussed in better detail on there or will be talked about in videos coming up tomorrow. Our live stream should be back up when we start work again around 8:30/9am.

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Oh, I changed it. Thank you for clearing that up for me, and sorry for the mishap, totally embarrassing. But since Bacon seems to have such wonderful mentors, I'm sure the entire team is full of absolutely wonderful people, so I'm now a fangirl of all of you wonderful people.
:]

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Just wanted to say how amazing you guys are for doing this. Not only is it inspirational, but your prototypes and videos are extremely helpful to our strategy and design process. Thank you!

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Hey guys, we're well under way with 20 hours left in our 3 day build timeframe. We're wrapping up our indexer/shooter/chassis integration and moving on to the climbing mechanism.

We just uploaded a new video on our YouTube channel showing the shooter and indexer being integrated and how we are making design decisions to get everything operational.

Tune in at 6pm Eastern Time tonight to our live stream for a Live Chat with the team!

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How do we join the chat? I can see the livestream, but no chat window... Ive tried Chrome & IE...