1625 putting ball over the OVERPASS
 

1625's prototype sending the ball flying over the overpass...

(sorry its a bit blurry its a still frame from some video footage)

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This sorta reminds me of those UFO pictures. Can't wait to see what's projecting it up in the air.

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I'm waiting until after are team meeting tomorrow and until we fix it up a bit before we show actually whats throwing it.

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If this is for real, I am amazed.

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Yes it is real hopefully tomorrow i will be putting up a picture of the mechanism that did that

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There is a more clear picture

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Is that a new prototype or the one that we quickly put together last week?

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I'm really curious...

Mainly, i'm wondering: Is it electric, spring operated, pneumatic, etc...

-q

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That's not the one we quickly put together last week.
This one is actually machined and made of metal (not wood) :ahh:

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Sorry guys but Popo (brent) will not be posting the mechanism this early in the season, hate to be a funstealer but we'll probably release it around ship date so it doesn't get stolen.

But i guarantee that this was not thrown by human hands, the mechanism was being powered by a cordless drill that will be replaced by some kit motor.
and it'll have about a 3-4 second reload time

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hmm some sort of build up speed and momentum device? a cordless drill did that?! good work guys!

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its more of a build up tension device....

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Sounds like it could be similar to a clay bird launcher, requires a lot of work to load, then released. It would work with a slow cocking time and a cammed release.
Definitely something I will be looking forward to seeing.

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Hey Aren, you should send me the picture :)

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Well awesome then. It looks like I was a little too conservative on my calculations.

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this was launched from the end of the lane divider.....

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Trained Chimps?

WC :cool:

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that's pretty sweet! unfortunatly... we dont have the ceiling to hurdle:( so w/ our prototype manipulator on last year's robot, we just act like we do it at a shorter level *tear tear*

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its really not impossible... somebody on our team (that is a lot smarter than me) did the calculations and we thought about doing this ourselves... we just decided not to.

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Zyik was referencing the younger, less mature, adam on the team.

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All I have to say is get a better picture and don't save it as a bitmap. :rolleyes:

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Well it would of been better but we just took a still frame from video and posted that up. So it was blurry... I will get a better pic of what this thing can do sometime soon. (unfortunately we will not be posting the picture of the device that throws it for quite some time):cool:

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LOL!

Hey, do you want to post the video of it clearing the overpass? As long as you don't show the device, of course. :)

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I spose i could....:ahh:

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Yay! :D

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Never mind sorry can't compress it enough to get it to upload... :(

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Have you tried youtube/google video?

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I will get a google video up sometime it just takes to long to upload it right now ill do it soon tho...

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Really impressive guys, keep up the good work..


video would be cool too ... ;)

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Haha, what's to say you didn't throw it? :P

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As Aren said, the mechanism launched the ball. It wasn't us. :)

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+2 props
can't wait to see you guys in chicago.