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Re: pic: Robostangs 548's 2014 Robot

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Originally Posted by mikemat View Post
Right now our drum is at a precarious balance between winch speed and shooting power. I know we can shoot from beyond 20 feet, but at that point we start to loose consistency, so we set our long shot at the line. Also, we are being limited by ball inflation because of our heated build area and unheated practice facility.
That makes sense. We have issues much farther as well, though we've been working on tuning that.

We've been having issues with consistency in our practice area too, being in a warehouse with doors opening and closing and breezes all over the place, and found that our competition bot seemed to be significantly more accurate (when working) than our practice bot.
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