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Im with Eric Scheuing on this, How will it get balls during comp? Throwing into that hole seems hard.

I love the throw on this thing. Reminds me of Mythbusters when they built the card throwing thing. Very cool.

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-the loader shown is a prototype. Balls will be collected from the ground via the belt mechanism and/or thrown into a basket (not shown) which feeds the loading tube.
-roller bearings with integral clutching are used for the arm
-not sure which video was posted but most of them were shot at about 20' range.
-trajectory angle is not adjustable in-match. It could be, but we're not trying to. Properly tuned it can score from a wide range of distances from target without adjustment
-in order to aim, the driver and/or camera need to aim the entire bot.
-the radar gun was behind the launcher. They work in either direction. Can't speak to the accuracy of this gun at this speed range though.

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Thanks for the offer but I have been working on this issue all day. Basically our web host was reporting us going over bandwidth limits... every hour. Eventually I figured out that I had not removed unneeded accounts after our domain name change (kickbot1523.com to marsbot.org - might not be much shorter but easier to remember I think). The bandwidth was being doubled as the new domain was active on both accounts (don't ask how, I would like to know as well).

Regardless, I believe the problem is finally fixed. We also had a brief period of downtime while the DNS updated from the old account to the new one (again, don't ask why this happened in the first place). A friend has mirrored the video (http://funtimenetwork.com/shooting.wmv) with an unlimited bandwidth account.

I apologize to anyone who wanted to watch our video during our technical difficulties!

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Thanks, Looked at your site earlier this afternoon and got the video, quite the interesting setup! My offer is there incase something happens and you need additional bandwidth/storage. I literally have over 1TB or storage at my server's disposal.

-Mike

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Wow. I am guessing this is a local dedicated server, nice. Well, if you don't mind putting it on there I would be happy to link to it :p . My previous post was basically in general as an update for everyone (I hope I wasn't rude - rather frustrated at the time).

Anyway, if you are interested that would be great. Instead of filling up this thread perhaps you could email me (timarnold[AT]adelphia.net). I am also curious by what you mean by "interesting setup" :yikes: .

EDIT: Actually... I could give you a better quality version too if you wish. Perhaps we can work something out :) .

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wOW tim this is a very kool website we are getting alot of posts 4 our bot so weet :D

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In the video we were shooting from about 20 feet

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bye the way tim its kyle :ahh:

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I wonder if there will be anyother catapults? :confused:

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looking good!!!!!
what is your drive - train?
What is your basic strategy?- aim higheror bottom feed?
what are you guys better at defense or offense?
what are you doing during autonomous mode?

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4 wheel drive (makes turning difficult, we need to replace front wheels with something slicker)

Well we can do both so it dosen't really matter... at the scrimmage yesterday we discovered that our lift uses the most power of anything on our bot. We basically relied on human loading as much as we could.
I would say offense in that we don't have the strongest drive train ever. One benifit to both sides however, is that our release point is about at 4.5 feet. At the scrimmage yesterday only one of our shots was blocked. We did get pushed around a little bit though.

Well.. as of now, nothing. Our programmers have their work cut out for them, as we were hoping to utilize the camera to get into position and fire in the beginning of the match. They make it sound like we will not be able to do that, but time will tell.

If you want to see the video of our robot in action at 179's scrimmage, check out http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...le&picid=12958