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Re: Creating the perfect robot

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Originally Posted by chmorroni View Post
Just a thought, but I know our robot (a more-or-less FCS) and a few others that I saw had to let their shooter wheels speed back up after each shot. What if it had a system of 2 shooters, so it could go through all the alliance's white Frisbees much more quickly? Then you have more time to do each of the other things on the list.
Or, just put your shooter's RPM at peak efficiency for whatever motor you are using. My team was shooting twice as fast at IRI because we switched from a CIM on our shooter to a pair of BB550s in a Cimulator box. It just so happens that the banebots+gearbox were near peak efficiency at the RPM we ran the CIM at, so we went from shooting about 1 disc/sec to 2.5 disc/sec.

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Originally Posted by Dragonking View Post
shooter faster than 67's and more accurate
Whoa, there, let's keep it within the realm of possibility! Update on the CAD: drive base is done, drive gearboxes stolen from 1477's CAD are in place. I will make custom ones once I finish the rest of the CAD.

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Originally Posted by Thunder910 View Post
Has anyone seen 2474's pickup? It collects both forward and backward. The only issue is that it's a spatula/roller-style pickup, so a nine-disc would be extremely tight for time if you consider that it has to lift the discs up to it's shooter.
But I think with some programming magic and a rapid fire rate, it could be done.
They had by far the best spatula collector. It was the only one I saw that could collect from both directions, and one of the few that could be effectively used in teleop. What really bothered me, though, was that they didn't have a climb.
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