How to pick up a frisbee

[Siri]

Originally Posted by vikesrock777

I believe they were talking about pushing frisbees one way or another based on orientation. One side would be for frisbees that are already in the correct orientation while the other side would be for those that need flipping.

Should be simpler than that. If the disk is already on its side as they said, flipping them over is as conceptually simple as tilting one wall either direction. We got a prototype doing this over the weekend.

If you're trying to get them right-side up on the right hand side:

|.\..|
|..|.|
|./..| ...<< With the open side left, you open the left wall enough to tip it, then open right so it slides down and out.


|../.|
|.|..|
|..\.| ...<< With the open side right, you just open the right wall so it flops out. (May or may not need to kick the left wall inward, depending on bottom slope and exact geometry).


As far as floor pickup to vertical robot entry, I'll just leave this here: 2012.

[vikesrock777]

Originally Posted by Siri

Should be simpler than that. If the disk is already on its side as they said, flipping them over is as conceptually simple as tilting one wall either direction. We got a prototype doing this over the weekend....

Ahh, I may have misunderstood when they said

where the disks actually come into the robot on the side.

I interpreted it as on the side of the robot as opposed to a frisbee in the orientation you drew out, though looking back that doesn't seem to make any sense . Thanks for pointing that out.