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Originally Posted by maxnz
I've been pondering this over the last couple weeks, so this is what I've thought of. We're building and testing it this week. Basically the balls roll in one direction and fall down into a chute that takes them to the shooter. They are able to fall into the chute whenever they want, which helps prevent jamming.
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When that hopper and feeder are static it will probably jam. It most likely needs some form of an agitator, which could be as simple as shaking the whole robot with the drivetrain. I only say this because of the several different arrangements of hopper concepts we tried there was almost always a configuration in which the balls 'self-locked' over the exit of the hopper. Not to say there isn't a passive design that works, we just didn't come across it.