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We had one match at Annapolis where two robots put 50+ points in the center goal during auton. What really sucked was that the field software failed and no green lights came on so the match had to be restarted.

Wetzel

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25 shoots about 10 balls in 2 seconds which is still rediculously fast and gives 7-8 sec for the camera to find its way =P

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Our bot has a vertical lift which draws balls out of the hopper. We can hold up to twelve balls in that vertical lift. We can clear out the lift in a second. We have a "double barrel" shooter so in the best of conditions, if our lift is full, we can shooter 12 bps.

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Depending on how the balls are loaded (we have three parallel shooters), Team 95's bot can shoot around 10 balls a second, although it's more accurate if they are all loaded in the center hopper.

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Well, the competition is over, was it real? Did they fire the balls at 10 per second?

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968? no. 968 and 254 shot around 5-6 balls per second.

469 shot very close to 10+ balls per second.

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Team 95 was about as fast as I've seen. They were easily 10+ balls per second.

The video was played forward, and was only sped up a little bit. The rig that was used to launch those balls was made with a bench grinder and an 8" skyway wheel. HP was about the same as the 2 small CIM motors, so theoretically we could have shot 10 BPS, but didn't deem it neccesary. They were already falling out of the goal at 5-6bps.

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Team 95 didn't go to nationals, but I know there were several times we shot 10+ balls per second. I've got several pictures showing 6 balls airborne between the bot and the goal (less than 10 feet away), and one picture showing 9.

However, we didn't get to do this (shoot balls from all three hoppers at full speed) all that often (watch the Palmetto finals to see the winning alliance going out of their way to block us and keep us from aiming). But when we did get to shoot, the results were impressive (we won a semifinal at Palmetto that way).

One time in the pits, the bot (Lilly) was fully loaded, and could send 42 balls from the hopper to being at the target in around 3.5 seconds.

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But nonetheless that is very impressive... I saw a bot on one of the webcasts that looked like it has a burst mode, like James Bond's Weapons from a 007 game. It was spectacular and was one sight to see. :)

Pavan

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That would probably be 469, Las Guerillas. When they unloaded it was one of the most frightning volleys in FIRST.

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Here is ours from before ship day...

http://www.freebmw.net/don/MVI_6751.AVI

We tweaked it later to be a little faster with the final 4 balls...

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Sorry to bring up an old topic, but it seems that 968 could shoot that many balls per second if they had too. Congradulations to 968 and their 10 bps on making the finals. ;)

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I have seen a lot of 968 shooting and I don't believe I've timed it but I would not be surprised if the real bot could do 10 balls per second (and all scoring). Way to go!