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Originally Posted by Mammaloon
While we may not be able to compete with teams like 254 or 971 in shooter design, we at 2877 are proud of our Pnuematically fired rolling catapault.
Our biggest innovation was the placement of servos on the end of the shooter tips. Combined with vision code, this gave us the ability to precisely control the distance and arc of the shot. As our vision code evolved, we came to the realization that by putting the servos at different angles we could aim the ball to the left or right which reduced our time to shoot greatly.
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Wow. That is really cool. Did you guys win any awards for that specifically?
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Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard
We'd joked about changing our left/right shooter speeds during the season to create a curveball, but never thought about really trying it.
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I also just wanted to comment on this. We had this same conversation in our team, and it went from joking, to half serious, to actually trying it. We probably spent about 2 hours trying to get a curveball to work with our dual wheel shooter, and while it did curve a little, the shot power was reduced a lot, so we scrapped the idea of using it. Would not recommend.