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Congrats on the 17-1 record and regional win !
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Thanks! We rolled a lot of what we learned last year into this robot.
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1. What coupling mechanism do you have in between your shooter motor and shooter wheel?
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The motor couplings are beam couplers from Ruland (
http://www.ruland.com/ps_couplings_flexible.asp). We used them on our shooter last year as well (cim-sim's in that case).
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2. What type of spotlight are you using?
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LED Ring lights from superbrightleds.com, same vendor as almost everyone used last year. We're using a 60mm and an 80mm green ring. They're epoxied onto the plastic camera housing. One is plenty, but we like having a bit of redundancy/overkill in that instance. We caught a stray frisbee on Saturday that killed 3 of the LED's. We might try putting a clear plastic shield over the LED's to prevent that in the future. Last year we left it exposed with no issues.
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3. Did you use the spotlight in your autonomous and in teleoperation?
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Yes, we're using it in both modes. We use the data to calculate distance and angle from target. That data feeds into the shooter wheel speed control and a "turn to target" function. The turn to target still needs a little tuning for autonomous.