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Originally Posted by Don Rotolo
Remember that you can surely make educated guesses to improve chances: Opening will be at 60" or below, so try to 'pop' balls up to a few inches above that. Also, center of robot will be between 13 and 30 inches from an edge, and a basket opening (if there is one) will likely be within this range. So, pop a ball a few inches above 60, and out maybe 20-24 inches (you can always move away a little bit), that should cover most of the other robots out there...
Don
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I considered this and I think popping the balls up is much like shooting, if I can implement that on a harvester design I might as well be shooting the center goal by modifying that a little bit and utilize the balls myself. Also that is hard to get it more than a few balls at a time. From the videoes and teaser a lot of teams have put out, it seems many shooters are capable of shooting a LOT of balls really fast, but they lack the ability to have that many balls consistantly throughout the match. If I could just dump say 30 balls from my harvester efficiently at that speed then it becomes a huge advantage. There is only 2minutes and 10 seconds to the game, can't waste it all transfering 50 balls one at a time.
Currently my team is trying to design a ball release system with dynamic height changes, so not only would we be able to dump all the balls we harvest into the corner goal, we can adjust it so we can dump them all into an ally shooter. However I was afraid a majority of shooters will have a 5 feet tall basket making such manuever impossible. I want to see how many teams have considered this factor and how many teams will actually have a basket opening that is say 4 feet or lower.