Team 41 - Full Court Shooter

[Jim Giacchi]

Yes, we decided to use two CIM motors on the shooter, they were the best option available to do what we wanted to do (go full court). We wanted to do direct drive to minimize complexity and to limit the vibration and noise of the shooter. While it's possible to build a really nice shooter with a gearbox, it was more difficult then we were willing to bite off.

Our drive is a single CIM per side into an Andymark Toughbox Nano. No, it's not as powerful as it could be, but it saves us significant weight that we could then put into the turret and the ball manipulator. Ideal, no, but everything is a tradeoff right :-), that's engineering.

You were right about the Gearmotor in the front, that powers the ball roller.
Thanks for all the nice comments, we're really happy with how the robot turned out this year!

[SpiffyDresser]

Very cool! If you don't mind me asking, how much success have you guys been getting out of this guy?

[Jim Giacchi]

Originally Posted by SpiffyDresser

Very cool! If you don't mind me asking, how much success have you guys been getting out of this guy?

With manual aiming and manual adjusting of the speed of the shooter wheels, we can pretty consistently hit the rim... we are hopping that once our codemonkeys get the camera and shooter wheel encoders working we can tighten that shot group.

As it stands right now we feel its accurate enough to make shooting from the back worth it, but it could definitely stand some improvement if we can squeeze it out of the machine.