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Originally Posted by Darkswordsmith
Looks really good, actually it's similar to our team's design.
Anyways, I am not sure how your mechanism transport balls to the shooter and the dumper. The big wheel at the top seems like a shooter, but how would you get the balls over the wheel down the conveyor belt?
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Thanks for the compliment.
Think of the hopper as Poof Ball Purgatory. The leftmost picture displays the hopper in its transportable configuration, allowing us to pick up balls from the floor, particularly. It may also be loaded by a human player.
The conveyor initially grabs balls from the floor and moves them up to the large wheel at the top -- the shooter. Since we likely won't pick up a ball or balls and be in position to shoot at the center goal, that wheel will spin slowly and 'shoot' the balls into the hopper where they will be stored.
When we're in position to score, two things may happen; the hopper may open to gravity-feed balls into a corner goal or it may move downward in preparation of shooting. In the latter instance, the conveyor again moves the balls as they come out of the bottom of the hopper up toward the shooter -- now spinning at some frightening speed -- and we shoot at the center goal.