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Originally Posted by bobby.rein
Design 1: A shooter bot that has floor pick up of fuel and a carrying capacity of 50+. Strategically we would shoot balls in boiler high goal for the entire time and never stop.
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A 50+ hopper is not something to just assume you can do. Each fuel is a 2.5" radius sphere, with a volume of 65.4in^3. Spheres packed at random have a ~60% packing efficiency, so each fuel has an effective volume of 110in^3. A 50 fuel hopper would need a volume of ~5250in^3, or a cube with sides of ~17.5 in. That's not something to assume you can fit in your robot. Let me be clear: I am definitely not saying it is not possible or even that your team can't achieve this. Just that you should make sure your robot can fit such a big hopper, a floor intake, and an output method all inside the volume limits.