Shooting Distance
 

For those of you who are making ball shooters this year, how far can you shoot the ball, and can you do it at a decent speed?

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Right now, we have about 10-12 feet at a decent speed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS17iC5CKiY

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We can make the ball into a trailer 10 feet away (back of trailer to front of robot). I have a feeling this is further than would ever need to be shot during gameplay.

By decent speed, do you mean balls/second or the time it takes for the balls to get from the shooter to the trailer? (Line drives sure would be fun to watch!) We are firing at about 4 balls/second.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9wl1x9Wf_Q

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Decent speed by the air time on the ball, the time we are going up the loader is going to be increased, its way to slow,

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Ours is quite similar. However, we agree its more further than necessary.
Very easy for us without going against a mobile target. :cool: Now that's another story.

Week 1 of regionals this year will be more anticipated by spectators than ever before for those participating in subsequent events.

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We shoot a line drive, and can get 12 feet. The time I was talking about is balls per second. Im not sure how many balls per second we will get because we havent finished the shooter/ball delivery yet. Our shooter wont have any problems getting the balls out.

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we're thinking, that 5 feet or below, is the best distance for this game.....

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I'd love to see a video of it if you have a chance to put one up!

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I dont have a video of the shooter, and I dont know when I will be allowed to post one.

I do have a video of our method of delivering the ball to the shooter.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=73413

It is currently being powered by drills, but we will be using a CIM so the speed will be close. That shows about how fast we will be getting balls off.

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3 foot max, we are money from whenever we are in range

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We're planning on about five feet maximum, but realistically, probably closer to three. I think with the orbit balls not having a uniform surface, and with your opponents always moving, getting a orbit ball beyond that distance will be quite difficult. Although it would awesome if some teams program their robot to lead the targets. That would be soooooo coooooooool.

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Working on it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvf33dblw2I

we have a ways to go though

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we are shooting 16ft line drives, but our we do not shoot as many balls per second as other teams. right now we are 93% accurate.

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We do about 6 feet, much more than needed.

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Range around ~ 8 feet