[RyanCahoon]

Originally Posted by bEdhEd

Rotating intakes, hoppers, catching nets, suction cups, paddles, catapults, spring launchers, there are all kinds of options. They don't have to look pretty, they just have to give an idea of how a robot would operate with those types of mechanisms.

A continuous (rotating) intake would be useful. I'll add it to the list of to-do's.

Can you clarify what you mean by a hopper? Since there's only one ball at a time this year, what I think of as a hopper wouldn't be of much use.

Would a ball launched by a catapult or a spring launcher behave differently than the current generic launcher? Seems like they're all just different methods of imparting energy to the ball, which then follows a roughly ballistic trajectory. The simulator is mostly useful for strategy purposes; physical prototyping is required to figure out which mechanism to use.