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Re: Team 233 (The Pink Team) Roccobot 2k6 Video Unveiled!

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Originally Posted by Cory
From the look of your ball collecting mechanism, it would seem as if you'd have a problem picking up two balls that were sitting next to each other as they enter the cutout in your frame, and transition to the single ball width of your helix.

Has this been a problem for you in testing? I know our team and others have been experiencing problems here.
We were worried about that too before we started testing, but actually we havent really had any problems with that. The way we pick up balls is not large enough for two balls to fit in side-by-side... its just large enough for maybe one and a half balls. Just as long as we arent driving too fast, we wont end up eating two balls at once. As one ball is being sucked up, the other one either patiently waits its turn, or it gets squashed underneath the robot as we accidentally run over it. those are just about the only problems we had during testing... that, and rarely, balls will get jammed either at the bottom or the top of the Archemedies Screw (aka the spiral), but that is easily undone with a little pursuasion on the Gunner's behalf.
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