For starters...
a short video.
This weekend was incredibly frustrating, but to be honest we got a number of big problems solved.
Cameron managed to fix all of the problems we were having with our box. The balls go in, and don't come out until we want them to...But...when we want them to they come out smoothly.
The top roller of our ball harvester is mounted and happy.
The bottom roller is being persnickety, but we will clean up the mounting brackets and the sprocket mount and that should be ok.
Our drive train is assembled and needs to be chained, but that should go smoothly.
Our frame was pretty much done, but a rushed weld broke making it impossible to marry the frame and the drive train.
We tested our shooter for the first time (I know...we are late to the party.) Not getting nearly the distance of other teams, (didn't really expect to) Our current set up doesn't really compress the ball at all. We are planning on adding a pinch point above the wheels so that the ball gets compressed just a bit. We are hoping that that will increase our distance enough to make us somewhat effective.
our current set up using a CIM-sim connected to two fisher price motors. We started out with a 60 tooth sprocket on our shooter, and moved down to something closer to 1.5 : 1...I'll have to get an exact count and some detailed pictures tomorrow.
Also, I think detailed pictures of our hopper are in order.
I guess I was really hoping to be farther along at this point...Oh well...
Edoga