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Posted by Quentin Lewis.

Engineer on team #42, P.A.R.T.S - Prececision Alvirne Robotics Technology Systems, from Alvirne, Hudson NH.

Posted on 2/24/2000 12:17 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Anyone have a 'Shooter'? posted by S. Krussell on 2/24/2000 6:32 AM MST:




> • you can't know your exact distance from the trough

I undersdtand that there was a competition a few years back where one of the finalists was a shooter....this ismy first year, so I never saw it.....but it sounded interesting.....and I bet the goals are 'bigger' this year. (so you can shoot from alot larger area of the field.)


> • your arm would need a giant protractor to gauge the
> correct angle


I was thinking of building sort of a 'Baseball pitching machine on steroids'....that is two large flywheels that you feed the ball into and it grabs it, squeezes it through and flings it. You could angle the wheels and create any sort of ball spin you wanted....and you could even angle the whole thing to tive you different trajectories. (probably program in only 2 different angles like 5' and 15' since unlimitted angles would be hard to deal with in the heat of battle)


NOTE: I think you would have to be able to handle 2 balls at once as you would use the first ball to guage your distance, and then adjust your distance to shoot the second ball should the first one miss.