[Meredith Novak]

Originally Posted by kaszeta

Yup. Belts and rollers, driven by pulleys (supplied by New Hampshire Industries, aka NHpulleys.com, our host for several years).

That mechanism has served team 95 very, very well. Variants of it were used on our 1998 (Grace), 2002 (Feynman), 2004 (Da Vinci)[*], and 2006 (Lilly)[*] robots. 2004 and 2006 could disgorge as well as gobble balls. 2002 was definitely the coolest one (since the balls were lined up), but Da Vinci was probably the best overall mechanism (it reliably and quickly could suck up balls and disgorge them without jamming, and we regularly did well during matches by simply depriving the other side from having balls).

[*] Palmetto regional Silver winners...

We were alliance partners at Palmetto in 2006. My son, who was 9 at the time still talks about that shooter!