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Originally Posted by Andy Baker
The 2002 Grasshopper robot from team 95 is the best ball collector ever in FIRST, imho. Simply the sound of that machine gobbling up 20 balls in about 4-5 seconds was astounding.
For those of you musically inclined, say the word "pop" 20 times in 5 seconds, by using 4 - 16th notes per second. Once you say it out loud and imagine a FIRST robot that could do this... it is pretty incredible.
Andy B.
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But this design would beg a line of balls, right? It appears to me that once the balls lose their upward mobility and gravity sets in, the gobbler won't pick any more up - it just pushes the balls in front.
This is an ongoing discussion in our team - an assembly that collects balls from the bottom of the hopper vs. one that deposits them at the top. We've reached a bit of an impasse....