[Team 4264]

Well, so far you guys have really busted our design bubble about the FP motors so I'm just going to lay it all out and see what you think. Let me remind you that we are the rookie rural school with absolutely no help. No mentors, no engineers, no clue, no time, and not enough students (4-6 regulars), but we are going to build a bot!
Picture a U shaped bot, open in front. 1 CIM motor (front wheel drive)on each side in front with front being straight upper arms of the U. Caster wheels from and old auto creeper in the rear corners so that it can spin freely and quickly. Our strategy is to use this U shaped spin action to control the balls around the floor better. Balls come in and are directed toward a bicycle wheel being slowly but constantly turning by use of one of the slow torquey motors. Not sure how yet... Balls are directed back, up, and over,the tire by use of carefully bent rows of conduit to bring it up to the top. From there, create some baseball pitching machine setup that many other teams are using with I guess, based on answers from my previous thread, FP motors to drive the pitching wheels, though they seem a bit wimpy.
Motor list
2 CIMs (drive)
1 long torque motor (bike wheel)
1 servo motor ( a gate before pitcher)
2 FP motors (pitching machine)

Probably no time to test. Maybe no time to wait on part orders. What is average ship time on our voucher vendors?
Thats it. NO Kinect, no air system, no defender bot, and mostly junk from the shop.

PS.
Legend tells of a bot from rookies of the past brought in with no programming to compete yet the kind competitors swooped in and saved the day by programming it before the event. So legally (bag /tag rules) how is this possible at a regional event with lots of new rookie TN teams trying figure out what is going on?