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Re: First Official 2012 Game Hint

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Originally Posted by Jared341 View Post
I'm not that worried about getting them back onto the field; moreso concerned that reliably counting them one at a time using a narrow IR beam would pose a fairly significant engineering challenge (which would be a dual to the challenge that teams would then have to solve in how to collect and orient football game pieces). If you have a chute that forces the balls into a constant orientation for counting, there may be jamming problems when a large number of balls are scored at once. If you just let the balls fall in whatever orientation they want, your counter runs the risk of double counting if balls are rotating as they fall.

Though I suppose they could go the Breakaway route, and make the counting of balls occur when the humans are putting the balls back onto the field. Hmm...
The photogates can solve that if there's a goalpost type goal. Instead of rolling down a chute, they just pass through a hole or between a pair of uprights, and get picked up by the sensors.
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