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Team 1683 Techno Titans
AKA: Tony Chen
FRC #1683 (Techno Titans)
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Re: Team 1683 TechnoTitans Automatic Shooting

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Originally Posted by MrBasse View Post
Looks pretty good! Is that a spare shooter? Keep in mind that things seem to be quite a bit different at events as far as ball density and consistency. Also, things might change a lot when mounted on your full competition robot.

Be sure to take some time now to build adjustments into your code, including distance modifications based on how solid the basketballs feel.
Thanks, that is exactly what we did. We read the thread discussiong about how the competition balls are different, all our target finding and speed adjusting have constants in there where we can change easily.

And this is our real shooter, it is under 30 lbs so we kept it.
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