[Pamela]

As you can tell our balls get picked up at the bottom by the rollers and are carried up the roller system then back down the "maze" to the bottom, when the balls reach the bottom they roll down to the side of the roller system where you will notice there is a single lonely roller sitting on the side, this roller is run seperately from the rest so you can turn it on when you need to. when turned on it takes the balls from the "maze" and brings them back up the same roller shoot. Now we get into the part where the imagination needs to take over..... At the top of the roller system we have built a simple diverter, run by a servo the simple gives the ball a track on which to lean that forces the ball to go into the maze or out the other direction towards the goal. If you force the balls to go out towards the goal there is a "tongue" of sorts that we have but on the robot, it sits about one and a half rollers down I think and when we sit against a goal it seperates the two closest pipes and allows the balls an easier way into the goal, when the ball comes out of the roller system it falls onto the tongue and rolls into the goal! the tongue is simply constructed out of a thin piece of aluminum we have bent into a u-shape and a piece of preforated aluminum which covers the whole inside the u-shape.

PS. Sorry about how long this is... I'll try to dig out some more recent pictures but my pictures from the last three days came out badly.... Also, yes this is a professionally done picture... our robot had its own little "photo shoot" so it could go in the companies news letters and stuff i guess? All I have to say is the robots pictures came out so much better then my senior pictures!!!