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Originally Posted by Kelvin Ng
Too bad those skirts won't let you climb up the platform this year. Im sure you need wheels at the corners or slants on the front and back in order to score those 10 or 15 points for your alliance.
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How about a belt along the bottom of the robot, as the center of the robot gets 'stuck' on the top edge of the ramp, just power up the belt and !zoom!.
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Originally Posted by FIRSTgurl93
Two years ago when we had to collect and score those kickballs?...well our team made a roller system to feed the balls into a hopper that was lined with mesh material as to let it expand as it filled up. We ended up doing very well and it was very efficient because we could suck up anything in our path and it rarely ever got jammed. They called us the "Laundry basket" robot, but our rollers were covered with a rubber material to grip the balls and the rollers went in a curved path to lead the balls into the hopper and the rollers also spun the other direction as to let the balls go back out the same way to score in the side goals.
Stephanie
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Thanks for the details - we were a rookie team last year, and so never got to see any of the ball pickerupper mechanisms developed.
The big blue belt at the leading edge of the robot is obviously intended to move balls upward - does the 'belt' closest to the center of the robot move too, or is it stationary. (It doesn't look like a loop). Also, what's the purpose of that white roller-like thingie at the middle of the belt - tension? or something else, too? And, just for clarity, where the belt hits the white roller, the belt is moving upward, right?
Thanks,
Don