Throw or Drop?

[peyton122995]

Originally Posted by Mr. Pockets

Curious how one can drop the ball, considering the length of the fender and the 14" extension limit on appendages.

Well you are allowed to cross the plane with one appendage on the robot. You are allowed to cross 14" (inches) like you stated. And you can go a max of like 9 feet high if you were able to tilt whatever you were dropping the balls with, well at an angle and about 2 feet higher the velocity of the balls would take it the extra inches. You could even put a motor at the edge with a roller on each side to give it power at very close range.

Hope this helped. (My First Post)

[PAR_WIG1350]

Originally Posted by peyton122995

Well you are allowed to cross the plane with one appendage on the robot. You are allowed to cross 14" (inches) like you stated. And you can go a max of like 9 feet high if you were able to tilt whatever you were dropping the balls with, well at an angle and about 2 feet higher the velocity of the balls would take it the extra inches. You could even put a motor at the edge with a roller on each side to give it power at very close range.

Hope this helped. (My First Post)

84 inches is seven feet, not nine.

Also, Welcome to CD.

[Jimmyk]

We're going with shooting, after all as long as you can get a fairly constant exit velocity for the ball, and you know how far from the hoop your robot is it's pretty simple physics to calculate the angle needed to get the ball in the hoop.

[davidthefat]

Just saying, trying to drop the balls onto the baskets also might hinder other bots trying to shoot or do the same thing. That would be a great limiting factor in scoring.

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by Jimmyk

We're going with shooting, after all as long as you can get a fairly constant exit velocity for the ball, and you know how far from the hoop your robot is it's pretty simple physics to calculate the angle needed to get the ball in the hoop.

If we were in a vaccuum!