How many of you are actually being a feeder bot?

[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

Couldn't a dynamic system be "put this accelerometer on the robot that, when activated, will take control of the drive at a slow speed until it reaches equilibrium"?

But what good will that serve when trying to balance 3 bots? I wrote this before, but a weight shifting mechanism where all the electrical components and the shooter mechanism is on a platform which is then shifted from the front to the back of the robot. Will have to test if that will be enough to tilt the bridge in the middle and if there will be enough room on the robot for such a platform to move enough to change the center of gravity.

And I would use a gyro and not an accelerometer.

[MountainFreak]

Well if u were planning on just being a feeder bot u might just want to try make a mechanism that will score in the lowest hoop and then consequently would feed very well.

[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by MountainFreak

Well if u were planning on just being a feeder bot u might just want to try make a mechanism that will score in the lowest hoop and then consequently would feed very well.

That was what we called a "plan B", but I really doubt its effect. I mean the same mechanism that can chuck a ball 50 feet can really score even at 2 feet? Highly skeptical on that being a viable option.

[KrazyCarl92]

Originally Posted by MountainFreak

Well if u were planning on just being a feeder bot u might just want to try make a mechanism that will score in the lowest hoop and then consequently would feed very well.

Any time you score, you put balls into the hands of your opponents. That means that if you score 1 point on a ball, then the same ball is given to your opponents and they score 2 or 3 with it, you come out behind on that action of scoring the one point. It may be more valuable to simply forward the balls to your offensive robots.