Originally Posted by Wildcats1378 (Post 1209401)

That's the easy part. The hard part is determining which way they are facing, and then how to flip them.

I think that picking up the frisbees is going to be a waste of time. There's a pretty small number sitting on the field, and the main way to get most of the frisbee's is through the feeding station.

However, I was thinking of a conveyer system which would have a little hatch open. Above the hatch would be a suction cup on a piston. It would go down, pick up the frisbee, then deposit it on the conveyer belt. Simple and fast. Doesn't solve the upside down issue though...

Originally Posted by NanoCollins (Post 1210800)

From what I have seen from other people's test, it does not matter all that much how they are flipped. Upside down or not (depending on your shooting system and the distance) they should fly fairly well.

Originally Posted by MrTechCenter (Post 1209576)

Sure it's much easier to go across the field to your alliance's feeding station and grab four discs, but think about it. After autonomous mode, you'd have 3 robots fighting for discs at the alliance feeding station. Sure there's enough slots for all three to be filled at the same time, but realistically, all three would not be fed at the same time, as the corner is very small and can barely fit all three robots there assuming that they are average sized. Plus, you have to worry about d-bots getting in your way and defending your feeding station. If you can pick up discs from the ground quick enough, it would be a HUGE advantage to you, and it would be beneficial during autonomous too, because then you can pick up discs from the ground and shoot them during auton for additional points (after you've shot your preloaded discs). And as for there being a lack of discs on the ground, the goals are fairly large but with the amount of defense that's possible, I can see a LOT of missed shots when a d-bot knocks a scoring bot off of alignment. We saw this last year with fender-shooters and d-bots.

Originally Posted by kuraikou (Post 1209386)

But than how would you put them into your shooter?

Originally Posted by Rishabhgadi (Post 1210406)

Our team has been debating whether to use a shooter, or an arm. we have a prototype shooter but not an arm...Any input?

Originally Posted by Wildcats1378 (Post 1209401)

That's the easy part. The hard part is determining which way they are facing, and then how to flip them.

I think that picking up the frisbees is going to be a waste of time. There's a pretty small number sitting on the field, and the main way to get most of the frisbee's is through the feeding station.

However, I was thinking of a conveyer system which would have a little hatch open. Above the hatch would be a suction cup on a piston. It would go down, pick up the frisbee, then deposit it on the conveyer belt. Simple and fast. Doesn't solve the upside down issue though...

Originally Posted by Dan Oelke (Post 1211314)

I created a prototype last night to sweep up the frisbee. This was using a 3/8" piece of plywood with about a 1/8" gap under the plywood. The frisbee would pretty consistently pop up onto the ramp.

There are 2 small wheels by the front edge. The idea being that those wheels will keep it from catching on the bump in the carpet. This also had 2 castors on the back edge of the ramp putting it about 4" off the ground.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7JbdU4h6F8

Originally Posted by 3044smike (Post 1210875)

my team had a few ideas for flipping the disks but the one i like the most is a system where the disks actually come into the robot on the side :yikes: and then at the end there would be a little motor with two sticks with gear interactable teeth (don't know what they're called:confused: ) which would push the disk one way or the other based on a distance sensor. Any thoughts?!?