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Originally Posted by Taylor
For those of you who are relatively new to FIRST, in 2006 there was a game "Aim High" where we were asked to launch 7" poof balls into a vertical target eight feet off the floor. Many teams used a modified softball pitching machine design for their robots, with moderate to high success. Although the geometries of the poof balls and the orbit balls are quite different, this could be a possible strategy to revisit.
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this was actually what we were thinking about using like the tennis/baseball/softball launcher type design. im still a littel skeptical beuacse we can argue that its going to be hard to use a dumping design accurate, but that doesnt change that fact that a launching design would be any more accurate...all of this is super dependent on how much sliding we get on the new surface because really no one knows how different its gonna be from carpet. also the balls are not soccer balls anymore, they are plastic wrapped in cloth, this years balls will definitely have more give than soccer balls used back in 2006. This may make the "baseball machine" design useless or highly ineffiecent? i dont know, maybe it will work?
I was thining maybe a pneumatic cannon thats nice and simple, but the problem with that is the velocity will not be variable like the baseball pitcher design would.