We the TechnoKats had a ball shooter w/ basket dumping combonation...
As you can see in that wheel all we did was us one of our motor mounts designed the previous season and connected it to a skyway wheel that shot the ball up a small ramp (u can see the bottom of one of the metal ramps)
In that picture u can see 2 sets of ramps...we actually made 2 seperate ball shooters that could be switched before a match depending where we thought we wanted to start (that way the wheel was up against the wall), but if i remember correct we only ended up using the red one because it took way too long to line everything up and get the balls to go into the basket. If i remember right we didnt get it down till about the 2nd regional, and it seemed to work it's best at Nationals.
5mb video of ball collecting
I dont really like the accuracy of the robot collecting the balls in that video, but it gives u the overall idea of how it works.
