My Hopper/Dumper Idea

[DjMaddius]

Originally Posted by TheAthlete

During brainstorming our team had the same idea, and I like the conveyor and belt idea to dump the colored discs in. The difficult part is designing a climbing system to actually make it to the top within the new size restraints.
If you go with it, good luck! I think it would be quite a sight to see something like this happening

Yea, we're focusing on climbing above all right now. This was just a quick idea I had while watching the robot in 3 days stream. I think a lot of people will have a similar idea but won't go with it because they are shooting. We aren't trying to do everything this year, changing our game plan up as our previous one wasn't working. Haven't been to states in a few years sadly. Very close every year, and with this design I think we'll make it if we can climb and dump 8/10 times.

[TheAthlete]

The Robot in 3 days videos are awesome! I'm glad someone is doing the rapid prototyping early on...hopefully it will give us an idea sometime this week what works regarding the shooter. We had issues last year prototyping wayyyyy too long.
And for some teams (like ours and it sounds like yours), there are limits to how much you can do in 6 weeks. Some teams out there will get the shooting and climbing to level three down, but for us we have to decide what combination to go with in order to be successful. The climbing and dumping is an option for us, along with a good shooter and climbing level one. With the space decrease this year it would be a huge design problem to get both done.

[AndyBare]

Originally Posted by DjMaddius

Yea, we're focusing on climbing above all right now. This was just a quick idea I had while watching the robot in 3 days stream. I think a lot of people will have a similar idea but won't go with it because they are shooting. We aren't trying to do everything this year, changing our game plan up as our previous one wasn't working. Haven't been to states in a few years sadly. Very close every year, and with this design I think we'll make it if we can climb and dump 8/10 times.

While I think this is a pretty cool strategy, you only have 2 minutes teleop, last 30 seconds for climbing, but since you are revolved around that you'd probably have that set. 8/10 climbs would mean you are making a fresh climb every 20 seconds, giving you about a little under 10 seconds to get up the pyramid and back down, at which point you would start immediately again. Maybe i am missing something, but this seems a bit far-fetched, because you would still have to be getting frisbees between repelling and starting a new climb.

[NanoCollins]

Originally Posted by AndyBare

While I think this is a pretty cool strategy, you only have 2 minutes teleop, last 30 seconds for climbing, but since you are revolved around that you'd probably have that set. 8/10 climbs would mean you are making a fresh climb every 20 seconds, giving you about a little under 10 seconds to get up the pyramid and back down, at which point you would start immediately again. Maybe i am missing something, but this seems a bit far-fetched, because you would still have to be getting frisbees between repelling and starting a new climb.

A problem withjust climbing the pyramid is that I think only the colored diskscan go in the pyramids. Plus if you fall at all from the top... your robot is DOOMED .

[DjMaddius]

Originally Posted by NanoCollins

A problem withjust climbing the pyramid is that I think only the colored diskscan go in the pyramids. Plus if you fall at all from the top... your robot is DOOMED .

Yea, we know of the issues. We're tossing a few designs around still. Brainstorming this year is lasting a bit longer than normal. We need to be VERY safe, and there are a lot of rules. Its a lot more difficult than we thought but hey, it is FRC right? haha, and yea only colored can go in. No issue, we only plan to go up once so we'll take 4 colored up with us.