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Re: Car Nack Predicts 12-1

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Originally Posted by JABot67 View Post
Technically, Car Nack wins. Our alliance at Kettering (862, 3322, 3601) scored 6 balls in the top hoop in autonomous, but the last score was counted in teleop. I will post video as soon as I can find some... we had a Rube Goldberg autonomous setup.
Came here to say this. It was seriously awesome.

This was done with Team 3322 (a consistent, very very strong shooter), Team 862 (a shooter) and team 3601 (a feeder bot with an open top) by lining the three up very close to each other, with 3322 being at the key.

KEY
3322
3601 862

They were all touching each other. When autonomous begins our robot shoots its two balls (which it has never missed as far as I'm aware,) then 3601 passes its two balls to us through the feeder by reversing the feeder motor (something I believe was already a part of their design, they simply modified their autonomous to do it.) As its doings this, 862 shoots at a very low RPM their balls into 3601's open-topped ball holder. The motors still turning, it sends the balls to us as we have already shot the first two 3601 gave us. We then shoot the two 3601 passed to us.

I don't believe we ever got less than four, except for during one field error which we re-played and I believe that was the match in which we got all six (technically.) Our average was about five. The reason we didn't get six every time was simply due to the variables: the way the balls that 862 shot to 3601 bounced before getting sucked down into the feeder, a ball which just barely bounced off the rim (almost unheard of for our autonomous until we tried shooting so many balls.)

It was really great.
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