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Yesterday, our prototype shooter (CIM and miniCIM directly driving 2 8" AM pneumatic wheels) was easily firing across our 30' practice room with little vertical drop.

Our team plans to be versatile with shooting positions, as we have our shooter on a tilting mount, but I expect we'll primarily be firing from the back of our pyramid and from the feeder station (if we can get adequate accuracy at such a long range)

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That curve.

-Nick

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How are your motors holding up? We were using an 8 inch AndyMark FIRST directly mounted on a mini-CIM shaft and got some good shots until the motor bearing gave out.

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FIRST team 4057 has a prototype shooting accurately from 55 feet out at 60% power. It was at this time we realized the hazards of testing inside as we ramped up the power and put a dent in the duct system in the school. ::ouch::

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No, the rule regarding the feeder and pyramid safe zones specifically designates that it doesn't matter who initiates contact.

18-1 is intended to prevent things like loading discs into another robot so it has more than 4 or pushing an opposing robot into one of your own partners that is trying to climb, so that the opposing robot gets huge penalties.

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Our shooter has been tested at 27 feet into the top goal consistently, but we've shot 50+ feet into someone's outstretched arms 7 feet in the air. Need some more testing
So far, some of the most important things We've learned is that:
There has to be a stable, stable back wall.
If it's a circular shooter, more compression tends to shoot it farther.
No skid tape helps a lot.

Our shooter was shooting like 10-15 feet, and it was a bit disappointing. We were about t give up, but we just moved the wheel in like 1/4 in, and it started FLINGING those things out to 40 feet or so.

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So far they're ok as the motor is well supported, but we haven't run it much yet.

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i believe our robot will be capable of shooting from feeder station but i fear a defensive robot will park infront of us nd block us. is that legal?

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As long as they adhere to space restrictions, yes.

There is no rule against simply being in the way of a shooting robot, but there are plenty of rules you could break while doing so (pinning, etc). See section 3.2.6 "ROBOT-ROBOT Interaction" of the game manual for more information.

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We're planning on scoring a little more than over 9000 from the goal. Give or take a little.

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Oh, y'know, we're attending Greater Kansas City, but plan on outscoring OP Robotics at their regionals...:)

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We shoot from about 60 feet away. But the frisbee doesn't go nearly that far :p
From 12 feet we're 100% easily, from 25 feet almost but not quite, we are seeing some curve at that point. They tell me 40 feet is not bad, but I have not seen it myself.

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We're shooting about 20ft dead straight, no wheels.

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No wheels? Care to elaborate? Sounds fascinating.

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30ish feet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rafV51xbnOk