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Originally Posted by Chak
Wow! When I heard someone at kickoff say that a low-bar high-goal shooter is impossible, I knew someone else would do it. 
Does the drivetrain get over any other defenses, or is this bot focused on the low bar to shooting path? If the drivetrain has the ability to get over other defenses, I would be interested in knowing the wheels' size and the center wheel's drop. |
As Billfred said we didn't have the other defenses built yet. So we cannot claim to have gone over them, but theoretically it was made to be able to go over all of them that don't require some active mechanisms easily. When we have the rest of the defenses built for our team we'll shoot some additional video potentially. The frame is a modified AM14U3 I believe the drop center is 1/8".
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Originally Posted by Chak
Looks like the intake is spring-loaded or something. Does that improve performance compared to a static wheel?
I can't figure out how that catapult works; the catapult doesn't seem to be connected to anything but its shaft. Is the potential energy stored somewhere else, then transmitted to that shaft?
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The intake is not spring loaded. It is connected to a pneumatic cylinder that is plumbed for only lifting the intake up to center the ball in the robot, holding the ball as we drove across the field, and helping for when we would need to spit the ball out in the low goal. When the solenoid isn't on the intake floats which allows it to move as needed to let the ball roll in and over the front geometry of the robot easily and quickly.
The catapult is that simple because mathematically speaking you don't really need more power than what our system provided us for shooting. Since shooting from the neutral zone and secret passage is not allowed. Billfred pretty much nailed what the shooter is, and you don't need much more than that to be successful in shooting.