Team 166 2012 Robot

[Nick Bouressa]

Originally Posted by Rogue Leader

Wow! It looks very nice! I'm curious about your shooting mechanism though. Is it a turret design utilizing the Lazy Susan? Or is it fixed? (The first picture would make it look misleading) If it is a Lazy Susan, I'm even more curious as to how you feed the balls in. Either way, great looking 'bot!

Hello! The turret is rotated by a lead screw driven by the AndyMark motor beneath the shooter. And on the shooter assembly there is a slider with the plastic lead screw connector thing (technical name of course) mounted on a pivot, which compensates for the arc when the shooter rotates. We had thought about using a Lazy Susan, but this design seemed to fit better and weigh less.

Its kind of hard to see from the pictures, but the shooter pivots on a rod that is blocked in every picture by the vertical support beam on the shooter, or the balls.

EDIT: To elaborate on the pep rally, we *are* participating in it and will try to score in a basket. Which will be great exposure to allot of people in or school, teachers and students alike. In other years we have talked about the team before, but its never been during build season before so we never had the robot to show off.