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Originally Posted by 45Auto
Sounds like it was a good thing you guys didn't try to build a looper, given all the problems you had with the basic simple kicking bot.
Glad it all worked out for you in the end!
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A Gravity fed ball chute scheme with a pneumatic left-right flipper would have been much easier for us to handle combined with tower latching. We may not have reached the 469 level of loopiness, but it would have been looping balls on Day 2.
Our variable kick winder was well designed and built mechanically (except in the weight category), but a combination of going overweight, two encoder failures, and two pneumatic valve failures did us in with it at our first regional. Though we could operate enough for a basic kick by the semifinals, with it being untested in match play at that stage, we had no practice and no confidence that we could avoid a nasty penalty of protruding past frame for more than two seconds. So, we didn't fire, but, thanks to having the two powerhouse partners of 111 and 1625, we did reach our best scoring at 3 push-them-in goals with no penalties, while playing some serious defense too..
By the end of Northstar qualifications, we are expecting to have accomplished our design goal of autonomous 3-ball kicking from far zone to goal area => on the fly.
-Dick Ledford