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Originally Posted by Chris is me
So in my endless quest to play with design ideas for a game I'm not playing...
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Me too!!!!!! Unfortunately my design actually uses stuff allowed in the FTC rules (idk about vex, hence I'm not competing, though it could probably be done in Vex too).
A Large 16x16x10-ish box, framed in metal, with string strung from top to bottom. Attached to the chassis on parallel bars, for lifting. The box is heldheld 4-5" of the ground. At the front there are Lego motors (feeling the FTC????) that turn a robot-wide sweeper (similar to many FRC bots, or FTC Team Power Surge), with sticky material (I was thinking about non-stick pad), that hits the ground. When it rotates, the friction pulls the balls (or footballs) underneath it, and then up a ramp (attached to the chassis), into the hopper. You can than lift the scoop up so that the it is covering the opponents triangle, and when you reverse the ball collector, it dumps in your own. Or you can lift it over the wall and reverse it to drop, many balls quickly onto the opposite side.
Good balance of D and offense.
<Confusion> Also for added capacity, you could have it made of two 4/6ths cubes, that folded into each other (one is slightly smaller), and are then separated by servos, to add capacity (almost twice as much length), it would work as long as continuity could be maintained between the two, so that balls wouldn't stick.</Confusion>
No Idea if its possible, but It looks cool in my head.