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Originally Posted by GeeTwo
About the same here. We're planning for our long shot to be at a range where the bumpers are over the outer works (when we're being defended), and the short shot will be fairly close to the batter (higher percentage shot when the courtyard is clear).
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Edit: Mikey found a good setup for our shooter this evening - VERY consistent from shot to shot, enough that we are confident that we can make this work. Bri is in beast mode working out targeting on a pi. Now we're just waiting on some pneumatic cylinders from Bimba** and a bit of programming from Tiffany to make it sing. We expect to bag Tigger* with a system that can be made to work with proper programming, and have our practice robot, Roo*, shooting 90%+ by Bayou, and to fine-tune Tigger's launcher on Thursday. The ball pickup still has some work to go, but I haven't felt this good about our situation during week 6 ever.
* Names Tigger and Roo seem to have taken hold. In addition to being close enough to the official T1G3R^5 name, Tigger's bottom is made (maid?) out of rubber (the lowermost skid plate is cut from a rubbermaid brute trash can purchased to prototype
Veronica's Oscar costume last year), and his top is made out of springs (inverted from the song, but who's counting?). Roo was essentially Tigger's little brother for much of the Pooh series, so he's the practice robot.
** We've made a couple of stand-ins for a Bimba Flat-I cylinder out of dimensional lumber, dowels, and PVC which has been invaluable for getting the configuration working. There's more information in those 2-D drawings than most people realize. This is a really good thing, because we probably won't get the cylinders in hand before bag day.