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Originally Posted by Joe_Widen
That is definately the neatest looking robot I've seen this year. How did you guys get it to do that. It looks like you had a high torque motor and a surgical tubing rig. That looks really good, except how do you plan to get more balls into the feeder, are you going to bend some aluminum and make it like a slide of some sort?
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You guessed right on how it works, but we are planning on using a hopper of sorts (hint: basketball) to allow human loading as well as a small ammount of onboard storage.
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Originally Posted by Team ERV
wow guys that looks pretty awesome....but does it come under that rule with the projectile?
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I don't know what rule you are talking about in particular, but the only rule we were concened about was about stored energy. This problem was eliminated as the surgical tubing pulls the arm back to the point of lowest energy.
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Originally Posted by Nate Laverdure
Oh, that's an easy question. Ours shoots as fast as the balls can get to the shooter.
Seriously, I'm not sure how many balls it can shoot in whatever time limit. What I do know, though, is that the tangential velocity of the shooting wheels is about 80 mph. The ball gets shot through the wheels at 60 mph (there's some slippage), then it goes through a vertical tube to our turret which slows it to more or less 28 mph.
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That sounds very impressive. I would love to a video of it in action! How long is the delay between balls for accuracy; none?