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Our 2014 robot is "different" with a roller shooter and a unique take on the mecanum drive train.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQa0vGsG9S4

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2147 and cheesey poofs have similar shooting mechanisms, and team 360 (the Revolution) have an interesting design http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/360 (there's some videos of matches)... I saw another robot that was a tube that collected in one end, and out the other, but I forget the number

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868's bot uses a linear shooter of sorts, with all the shooter wheels on the bottom. It gets some insane backspin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEYu_-5aUEc

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I haven't seen another robot this season that is very much like ours:




The design is symmetric, and the claw can flip a full 180 degrees for a double sided intake and shooter. The claw can be opened and closed with a lead screw attached to the back linkage bars. The shooter is drawn by a choo-choo gear mechanism, and the force comes from springs that are hidden inside the arms. The LEDs are indicators for the drivers to see which side of the robot faces them, since the whole thing is completely symmetric, and they correspond to green and red buttons on our custom control board that controls the position of the claw.

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My teams (1425) robot is very different. We have a variarion on the roller collector. This photo does not show it but the current iteration has mechanum and omni wheels to direct the ball to the center of the bot. We have a kiwi drive which is uncommon. To shoot we have two vertical wheels (much like a pitching machine) and a pneumatic "injector" that forces the ball between the wheels. Packaging this all together was quite a challenge so we ended up putting the top shooter wheel on the back of the collector "arm".

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Show me another intake like the CyberKnights.

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See 1519, Mechanical Mayhem.

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For a first year team your robot is extremely impressive! Do you have any videos of it in action?

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I'd say that our robot was pretty unique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyq7cL5Ureg

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I thought our team's bot was somewhat unique this year.

One of the announcers called it a 'Flinger' at the W. Canada Regional and I rather liked that particular rendition of a name for our firing mech XD

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Our robot deffently... Heck we won an award because how weird our arm was. We invented an arm this yeear, and won the creativity award for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBhZ5qYybao

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Our robot atlas. You can find out more here:

http://www.team533.com/frisbeeshooter-1/

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Our robot(1318) has tower that extends the pivot joint for the shooter assembly 10" out of the frame perimeter to make room for longer arms while still having a wide intake.

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Our two 250 pounds force compressions springs were certainly "different". When the launcher was triggered, it went off with a bang.

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We used a slingshot in lieu of a catapult. Good for short, high trajectory shots. Safety with a catapult was a key concern.

http://wiki.team1640.com/index.php?t...BOT_X_Shooting