Here is our robot as of a couple days ago. We painted it today and have to put the fabric on the bumpers still but we are almost done. Our robot's name is "Elevader" and is now painted matte black.
Our shooter doesn't shoot very far because we didn't have a powerful enough motor, but it works well enough.
Our ball collector is made of PVC and some polycord and balls then go into a hopper which feeds them to the shooter via a wheel and a window motor.
We have a 4 wheel drivetrain and two other wheels that aren't being driven powered by 4 CIM motors.
This was our first test of our robot and we are all pretty excited to have something working. It's been a long stressful 6 weeks.
Some of the other robot's I've seen on the forum are amazing, we hope to get there someday.
We probably wouldn't have gotten the thing coded without the help of this forum, so thanks to anyone who gave me some help and feedback!
Thank you to our generous sponsors: JCPenny, NASA, MTSI, and JR Gear Landscaping!
video (pickup and shoot):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxU1ie4u1f4
this video gives a better idea of how our ball collector works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDiGbDz0D8
picture of it painted:
http://cl.ly/0z3n0z3M401937310K0N