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Yeah, as stated, our turret does indeer swivel. If all goes to plan, we should only have to touch the trigger to make it shoot, and to make small adjustments if need be. we're hoping for a fully autonomous aiming the whole game.

As for a couple fun facts on the drive train, We have a 2 speed, shift on the fly tranny. High speed of 12.8, and low of 6.8. With our nice wheels, we should be able to push a large number of things around.

To answer a much earlier question, We will be entering into the Inventor Competition, and we hope very dearly to win.

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Custom Transmission=Sweet

As for the blocking issue, with what appears to be a gravity fed launcher, it only takes a few seconds to unload a large amount of balls. Therefore it only takes a slight lapse in the defense (or an offensive "pick" like in basketball) for a great deal of damage to be done. On the flip side, you can also waste a bunch of ammo really quickly.

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Nice bot... but it looks a little top heavy... are you goin to do anything to prevent it from tipping over?

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Yes, we are making sure we keep the majority of the weight on the bottom of the robot. That was one of the reasons we went with a bottom shooter, because all of the motors are under a foot off of the ground.

We originally were going to make the hopper out of lexan, but after seeing how heavy and flexible the material was, we switched to making the skeleton of the hopper out of 1/16" wall L-beams. And what are we using as the wall between the beams? That's right, Chicken Wire. :D

Mike C.

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On the top heavy Issue: We've been designing around that, and depending on weight allowances we may add expanding balance arms, or some sort of device to do that effect.

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cool electronics on the harvester(we've been trying to figure out where to put ours and our teacher keeps telling us the harvester)