Rookie Team 3992 Launcher!

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Originally Posted by pfreivald

That looks really great, guys and gals! The mechanical consistency is impressive. (We also have a belts-and-two-rails system that is very consistent, though we use more belts... Something to consider is when you get hit by other robots, will the balls pop out?)

If you can aim, you'll have a very competitive bot!

(Yay, rookies!)

Thanks!

We'll definitely look into more belts. As it is right now, I think the biggest problem will be that, you can put a ball in directly centered, or you can put a ball in so that the belt is slightly on the left or right of the "equator" of the ball. So I'm wondering how we can make sure each ball goes in exactly centered.

Similarly we're finding the problem with consistency to be affected by how used the balls have been. We're looking toward the "window" we have where the slightly newer balls rebound off the backboard, and the slightly older balls go straight into the hoop. If we can get it to aim within this window, we think we should be set..

We'll order belts today