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Re: Hopper Capacity
1604 has held up to 24 balls and wasn't even half full. We can pick balls up from the ground, but I can only really see us getting lots of balls if we fill it up while the robot is on our side of the field during defense period. I don't see picking up balls as good of a strategy as playing defense, but I may be wrong. Being able to control all balls on the field so the opponents can't score may turn out to be a better strategy, but we shall see.
1390 can hold 10 balls in its conveyor belt at max capacity.
Quick funny story on balls in the 1604 hopper... We were weighing it on a scale at the school one day. It came up to be 24.1 lbs. Baffled, I tried to think of everything we have added on to the robot since the last time we weighed it. One of the students looked up and asked "Do the balls make a difference?" I look up "uhhh oh yeah, Yes!" after removing about 8 of them, we were back down to 118 lbs.
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