Team 2594's shooter prototype

[SteveGPage]

Originally Posted by spud nut

Thermal...lovely gracious professionalism. Why don't you just come right out and say that my team should just pack up and go home. I'm so glad that First has people like you to represent them.

Engineers, like Thermal, who share their experience, expertise, and advice with students, mentors, and other teams, is exactly what FIRST wants to represent them. If you are looking for "sticky sweet platitudes" instead of realistic and professional advice, then I think you have missed what "Gracious Professionalism" means.

[spud nut]

Ok, I will agree that I may have gone a little overboard on my assumptions. I have a tendency to do that every once in a while. So I hope we can accept that I wasn't thinking with the clearest head and move forward from here.

I'm just very proud of my students this year and how they have really stepped up and have worked harder and with more of an engineering process then they have for quite a few years. They have produced some quality CAD work for being a team with over 50% 1st year participants ( mostly Freshmen). Which I beleive is what was stated in the first post that we were presenting the cad work. I am proud of my team and may have been a little too protective of the descouraging aspects of some comments.

I have grasped the concept of the right to fail and grow from it. Even if it turns out to not be the perfect robot I am proud of the spirit my team has shown. I apologize to anyone who I offended previously.

[ewemp]

The picture I posted was a sub assembly of the shooting system. will sit on top of the chassis and has an adjustable angle for the shooting wheels. The hopper will also be fed from the ground using a belt system similar to what was seen on many bots in 2009. The hopper will only allow for three balls and the geneva wheel will only allow one ball at a time. I posted the picture on our way out, so I didnt put in a lot of relevant information. Thank you for the ideas of things to look for in our design. late nights make for grumpy teachers ;-)