Oh cmon that wheel gets up to speed pretty quick considering the software behind it to make it maintain constant speed. Also you cant quite tell from the picture but we have a spiral holding tank made of aluminum rods and a core with a helical hole patern. the holding tank alone holds 15-16 balls, plus whatever floats above that are held down by the "net" which is actually made of a few pinnies that Mr. George had I guess.. who knows if they're used...
on top of that is however many balls we fit in the gatherer. I'd estimate that at max capacity we could probably hold.. oh maybe 20-25 balls? we also have a rather nifty crosshair system that allows the copilot to more precicsely aim the shooter. And to assist the co-pilot we have a revolutionary "flex drive" to aim the two rails a bit in either direction. the two speed tranny works great, and its been tweaked since you and Ii used it in '03, nate. high gear is higher and its a little bit lighter. We also made some really cool feet but due to weight we didn't install them..
and those omni wheels really do dig into the carpet for superior traction in the drive diection with low friction in the turning direction so it drives rather nicely. See you guys at Nationals!
oh, you can find more pictures of the robot and the team here
http://public.fotki.com/CrazyKate/fi..._20/page7.html