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[Paul Copioli]

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[Paul Copioli]

This is Team 217's wheel of "doom". Can anyone guess what it is used for (specifically)?

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Paul Copioli

This is Team 217's wheel of "doom". Can anyone guess what it is used for (specifically)?

The paint ball hopper of "doom"?

Since this is round, it probably involves a turret of some sorts. My guess is that the ball shooter is located below the opening, the the shooter/hopper are mounted on a turret. A ball collector off the floor sucks balls up to the top of the robot, and dumps them into the ball hopper. This way, they can continue to suck up balls regardless of their turret position. But, this is just a guess.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

Since this is round, it probably involves a turret of some sorts. My guess is that the ball shooter is located below the opening, the the shooter/hopper are mounted on a turret. A ball collector off the floor sucks balls up to the top of the robot, and dumps them into the ball hopper. This way, they can continue to suck up balls regardless of their turret position. But, this is just a guess.

Noting one of Copioli's remarks earlier in build (something about "we're not going for floor loading", IIRC), I'd say human load only. Balls collect and are funneled into the shooter somehow.

[xzvrw2]

In my opinion
this is nothing at all
hes got you all thinking too hard
he so silly
haha
<3

[hayakuneko]

looks heavy...

[groves]

LOL it looks like a washing machine! If you turn it on spin cycle it could be your shooter. does it sort colors? What is the capacity? does it have a gentle cycle? (for the low goal)

[Andrew Blair]

Originally Posted by groves

LOL it looks like a washing machine! If you turn it on spin cycle it could be your shooter. does it sort colors? What is the capacity? does it have a gentle cycle? (for the low goal)

I'm going with Groves, but it looks more like a clothes basket to me.

[Elgin Clock]

Well duh, it's obviously a vertically mounted spinning 6-chicken rotisserie that automatically drops the chicken down the chute when it's finished cooking.

I would expect nothing less from a team call the Thunder Chickens.

[Paul Copioli]

It has an outside diameter of 26" and the hole in the middle is about 11" in diameter. Each "slot" is 7.5" wide (wonder what goes in there?). The height is about 10.5" and the total weight with Lexan is around 5 lbs. We are using 0.062" thick aluminum sheet metal just like last year.

Eric is right ... we are NOT floor loading.


This is definitely a significant part of our robot. We feel most teams will overlook ball jamming, but not us. We are very concerned with ball jamming and this device is used to help with the jamming problem.

Have you ever looked inside a gumball machine? The gumball machine was our inspiration, but now that I look at it ... it does look like a washing machine.

-Paul

[Eric Scheuing]

For driving?

[Chriszuma]

It reminds me of a centrifuge gun, but it's missing a few elements.

[miketwalker]

I like it Paul, we were looking into something similar a few weeks ago. Our inspiration was this: http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~arens/ee118/mechanics.html which looks similar to what I'm guessing you're planning to do. I'm glad to see a team that has the technical resources to build something like this is doing so, because it's a great idea. Can't wait to see it in action, good luck.

[Alekat]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Well duh, it's obviously a vertically mounted spinning 6-chicken rotisserie that automatically drops the chicken down the chute when it's finished cooking.

I would expect nothing less from a team call the Thunder Chickens.

Just set it, and forget it!

[Heretic121]

turret... balss drop into the hole mentioned and either into the gun or down a chute to use the lower goals...