So in my endless quest to play with design ideas for a game I'm not playing, I'm currently working on a design very similar to FRC 1625's robot in FRC, but with an omni drive chassis so that you can slide horizontally along the wall to avoid robots trying to play defense. Ideally the hopper would be able to "catch" some of the balls people are throwing over, too
Having the 3-part tread with really wide feed solves the different length issues, but the problem arises with the slightly wider footballs. I'm thinking of making one or two of the center treads slightly closer to the wall (that the balls roll up), so balls will corral there while footballs will go up the edges (kind of like the gripper things that 1114 had on their bot this year in a way). That or perhaps advanced tread flippers to hold balls.
Basically I wanna build real bad :/