3 robots designs I hope to see this season

[farmersvilleRob]

Very interesting, however, based on the popular designs of a pitching machine bot, half court take a muzzle velocity of 34 ft/sec and full court back corner shot take 50 ft/sec, which is too far for a spitting robot. Only a direct contact bot (throwing) will be able to put enough mechanical efficiency into the kinetic motion of the ball. Also, the goal being so far away, only math will be able to make the shot, not human controls, so this competition is 99% robot.

On the three shot robot, there is absolutely no way to load 3 balls at a time, and shoot all three with a spitting bot or any bot for that matter. The balls simply are too heavy. Also, the bridge bot would take a lot of weight in pieces alone to get the balancing right (i.e. wormgear secondary drive to lock position.). Also, balancing isn't inside it's own special timeframe like the autonomous period is. That means one team will have to sacrifice probably 30 seconds (1/4 the game) to just attempt to balance by themselves. That being said, a competent robot that can score will have more at least 10 points without having to worry about the probably of not balancing. Also, it wont be sabotaged in balancing. If I were the other team and saw someone balancing, i would simply take a 3 point foul and touch the bridge to make it "not supporting all robots) instead of have a team score 10-20 points off a chassis bot basically.