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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
343 was on the winning alliance in VCU with a very similar design. Problem is, harsher refs might have gotten mad at them for shredding balls (beleived to be the rough polycarb edges of their spiraling ramp). When running their system, it was described to be "snowing" the ball skin! 
343 also had a turret for their gun.
Any issues with you guys and shredding balls? If not, you guys look to be an awesome competitor once again this year. |
Lil' Lavery, thanks for the complement. As far as shredding balls. We were actually shut down in a practice round. The problem is that a ball got jammed when the operators placed the balls in the robot before play started. The tried all kinds of maneuvers to get the ball loose. In the process it ground up the ball pretty bad. They shut us down and we accept that they were right in doing so. From that point on our operators have taken care to make sure the balls are freely moving after manual insertion. We actually did extensive testing that resulted in us putting the "sock" on the brushes to cut down on the ball damage. The operator can also stop the brushes to minimize ball wear. From our testing we do not damage balls that have not been previously damaged.