FRC 1058, the PVC Pirates Shooter

[Brandon Zalinsky]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

How are you aiming it? Can you achieve that kind of accuracy with human or robot control?

It will be on a 240 degree turret. It is possible, the turning of the turret will be geared down heavily to give us errors of less than half a degree (I believe). The only problem will be that the turret will be dreadfully slow traversing, but that's a sacrifice we're willing to make. We'll be tracking the vision targets for distance and angle. We have a great system for tracking the vision targets, but I can't tell you all our secrets!

Originally Posted by pfreivald

How are you determining range?

We'll take measurements of the size of the vision target and work off that. I don't do code, so I'd have to speak to someone else on the team.

Originally Posted by pfreivald

Have you tried it with more than one ball at a time? More than two? Three?

Only one ball at a time. It takes about 3 seconds to spin up after firing. This is a fixable problem that we can work on.

Originally Posted by pfreivald

Why the heck aren't you wearing safety glasses?

I always do (Bruins shirt, white hat in the second half/longer range part of the video). Most of our members use the ones that the school's metal shop has, however, that day, the shop teacher decided to lock them all in a cabinet. Most of the members have their own now, this video was taken a week ago.

Thanks for the input!