Re: Best Intake
 

I think 254 deserves some credit for there intake. Not only is it double sided but its fast, durable, simple and does not get in there way when shooting.

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I still have yet to see another intake like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sg4yAD2YPY

Plus they also shoot on the run, very important this year with defense.

Note the excellent driving at 1:42

They will be at the NEDCMP.

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Hard to say if it is the best intake, but it might be the best intake video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0LFdVrL54o&

Re: Best Intake
 

Humble shoutout to my team for being the only team I've seen this year to effectively use a forklift as an intake mechanism. Everyone's got rollers this year, but a simple and lightweight ball scooper seems to work just fine for us.

Re: Best Intake
 

a variety of intakes are effective: single siders like 2046, 3393, 4488 and 2928 (can you tell I'm from the pacific Northwest yet?), double siders like cheesy poofs and 488, 1114 bots like titanium and 1114 all are effective. I have yet to see an el toro that matches up to the over the top mechanisms, and grabbers/suction are not a good idea for collection: if they work, it's barely (3218 has the most effective I have seen up in my little corner of FIRST, and they made it from a bunch of household objects: they won multiple awards for it)

Re: Best Intake
 

See 4055, NRG.

You have a real hard time convincing me that a forklift is 'good enough' under any reasonable amount of defense though.

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The good thing about a wheeled/el toro intake, over a forklift, intake is that the wheels/sticks grip the ball. A forklift intake never grips the ball, so I doubt it would hold the ball through defense.

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I wonder why it would be an imaging system. I mean. If I understand the concept of the intake well enough all you need to do to make the intake truely effective is to be able to detect the ball once it reaches the optimum distance range between the grabbers/distance from the bumper so that it automatically grabs the ball.

I've been developing an intake that functions almost exactly like theirs does and it's working almost exactly like theirs with only a Maxbotics sonar sensor to detect the distance.