Controlling Balls?

[Apeace]

How do people plan on collecting/storing balls?

We were thinking of using rollers or something to collect balls into a cargo holder

[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by Apeace

How do people plan on collecting/storing balls?

We were thinking of using rollers or something to collect balls into a cargo holder

I would be interested in high res pictures/designs of 2009 or 2006 robots with conveyors and rollers.

EDIT: Availible at FRC designs.com

http://www.frc-designs.com/html/CAD_2009.html

[Sean Raia]

Simply put: we will collect balls as fast as we score them. Our hopper will be our conveyor.

[Apeace]

I was also looking for ideas from 2006, but you can't get many specs off of Youtube.

[Flimsor]

Our team is thinking about sucking them up with rollerst too, and then they get pulled into a conveyor belt system that pops them into the launching mechanism. It would be built to store a maximum of 3 including any that may be loaded in the launching mechanism. I think most teams will be using this type of collection system, but the launching mechanisms will vary.

Since there are so few of them you could actually possess at a time, we saw no reason to have an actual "storage unit". Instead, we just go from ground pickup to launcher. There's some more secrets with this, but that's team stuff. If you want to know, then you have to join the team. 256 is always accepting new members*!

*Members from other teams must sign a contract saying they will stay with the team the entire year.

[Flimsor]

That's what our team is thinking too. This robot may not end up being very tall at all.

[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by Flimsor

That's what our team is thinking too. This robot may not end up being very tall at all.

Be careful, you're going to have to have a large trajectory if you're going to avoid defense.

[Flimsor]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

Be careful, you're going to have to have a large trajectory if you're going to avoid defense.

Yeah, that's true. I guess it will probably need to be taller.