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Re: Realistic high goal scoring rate

My big thing is fitting everything together in a way that emphasizes the priorities in use of space. My old team, FRC 2970, came up with a good design in 2009 for ball throughput from a static hopper. Check us out on TBA for details. My biggest concern isn't so much dump/shooter design, but space and positioning everything else, which is a necessary detail that I feel most teams will need to acknowledge. Considering we can minimize the climb mechanism to around 4 or 5 inches tall at the top of the robot, and we've got around 9 inches on the bottom for drivetrain and intake, and one side has a gear delivery mechanism, how do we optimize the space so that:

- Intake of balls into the on-robot hopper/container is easy
- Output isn't limited by necessary frame space
- We have the power and space for actuators
- We don't lose our balls
- Dumping is consistent and fast

Our priority is not to emphasize use of the top target, so we can use a dumper rather than a powered shooter or turret, but we want to be able to deliver fuel effectively as a backup plan.
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