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We'll definitely look into more belts.
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It's easy to forget in the excitement of your first build that your robot is likely to get the living crapola rammed out of it during games. We ram ours into walls, flip it over onto its sides, tug on cables... I suggest that, as soon as you have it working, you do the same -- and then fix whatever no longer works, and then do it again, and again, and again, until 2-5 times in a row there's nothing to fix.
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As it is right now, I think the biggest problem will be that, you can put a ball in directly centered, or you can put a ball in so that the belt is slightly on the left or right of the "equator" of the ball. So I'm wondering how we can make sure each ball goes in exactly centered.
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Consider some kind of funneling system from your ball pickup, if you haven't already. The dual rails help a great deal, and one belt might be sufficient -- three-point centering is older than Newton! (The scientist and the field).
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Similarly we're finding the problem with consistency to be affected by how used the balls have been.
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Yup. That's true with everyone. Your 'sweet spot' technique is a good one, to be sure!
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We'll order belts today  |
We made our own from surgical tubing, 12 gauge wire, and superglue.
