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Any game necessitates similar designs.

But here is one that is more unique?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FngzL85tBwE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sg4yAD2YPY

Team 195, Southington CT CyberKnights.

Number 1 seed that lost in the QuarterFinals. (Check your bumpers!)

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Our robot is one of the only ones I've seen that uses belts to shoot the ball. The little flipper arms at the bottom move in and out like little arms to bring the ball closer, and the two sides with rollers and belts are tensioned with surgical tubing. We also have a winch-type system on the bottom of the cradle that the ball sits in and the winch pulls the arms tighter or lets them go looser. We 3D printed about 100 rollers in total, including extras.

http://imgur.com/czqIJg6

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Thanks PM, It is a unique design this year. 3 weeks of prototyping before the students even started the CAD. Looking forward to seeing you in Southington!

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I know somebody posted a CAD drawing of them earlier, but 1711 also uses belts fairly effectively. We worked with them at Escanaba and made it to Semifinals. Here's their release video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQY3FD4p6cA

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Ours is a bit different. We have a wheel shooter robot:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/40039?

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With all due respect to 195, they have an incredible robot, the basic concept is similar to several teams this year (118, 971, 2590, 67...)

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While our robot may not be unique in concept, being an elastic catapult, I think that what we do with it is pretty unique!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjSUAmLFnwY

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And Shaker as well! Your utilization of constant force springs is impressive. We explored them, but ended up not using them. Very cool to see them implemented on another robot.

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Check out 25

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I think we are a bit unique.

Youtube video here

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My team 3467 Windham Windup has a robot like no other I've seen. The robot is completely ambidextrous. We have dual ball pickups, and a "sled-uchet" shooter; half sled and half trebuchet. The trebuchet part is a low mass sling which allows more energy to be transferred back into the ball for shooting/passing.

Here is the robot and UNH Competition footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EVAa...lMsJyhDvk57J7Q

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433 has a unique looking robot, with more elastic tubing than you can imagine. I can't seem to find a picture of it though.

Check out 25's bot too! http://www.raiderrobotix.org/

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4146, as seen on the AZ practice field. They had some shooter trouble, but will be competing in Vegas in a couple of weeks.

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Team 3018 certainly has a unique and effective design this year! We completely forwent any stored energy and rather utilized a winch-driven linear shooter. The carriage lowers to the ground to pick up the ball, and a multi-sided intake effectively collects the game piece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8sxcxqOOMA
Our design has proven quite effective as an offensive robot, as it has won us the Lake Superior Regional and gotten us to the finals of the Wisconsin regional.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wBP8sIBLnM

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I would consider our robot, team rembrandts, differend. It has a unique hinging design that I havent seen on any other bot. Everything on the robot is lazer cut and anodised orange for it's smooth look. Also it's shooter is a unique design although more robots use the punch method, it's retraction method is unlike any other. And instead of using a board were we all the electro is attached on, we use an electro box drawer so we can easally take out our electro and keep on programming even without our robot.
Here is a picture of our robot in action:
http://nl.tinypic.com/view.php?pic=t...8#.UzMl__l5Pck
If you would like to see more pictures or video's, our wrap video for our time @ the NC Regional or our reveal video then please feel free to take a look at our website:
http://teamrembrandts.com/

Wouter Levering
Mentor of Team 4481: The Rembrandts
2014 NC regional Engineering Inspiration Award Winner
2013 NC regional Rookie All Star Winner