How far are people shooting?

[SoccerTaco]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

We're figuring we'll save more time and be more accurate if we back into the pyramid to set our range and aim, then fire from there. And pop forward to tag an opponent and draw a foul if they're trying to block us, of course.

If you pop forward solely to draw a foul, does 18-1 come into play here and negate the foul on the blocker?


Rule 18-1:
Strategies aimed solely at forcing the opposing ALLIANCE to violate a rule are not in the spirit of FRC and are not allowed. Rule violations forced in this manner will not result in assessment of a penalty on the target ALLIANCE .

[z_beeblebrox]

Yesterday, our prototype shooter (CIM and miniCIM directly driving 2 8" AM pneumatic wheels) was easily firing across our 30' practice room with little vertical drop.

Our team plans to be versatile with shooting positions, as we have our shooter on a tilting mount, but I expect we'll primarily be firing from the back of our pyramid and from the feeder station (if we can get adequate accuracy at such a long range)

[philso]

Originally Posted by z_beeblebrox

Yesterday, our prototype shooter (CIM and miniCIM directly driving 2 8" AM pneumatic wheels) was easily firing across our 30' practice room with little vertical drop.

How are your motors holding up? We were using an 8 inch AndyMark FIRST directly mounted on a mini-CIM shaft and got some good shots until the motor bearing gave out.

[z_beeblebrox]

Originally Posted by philso

How are your motors holding up? We were using an 8 inch AndyMark FIRST directly mounted on a mini-CIM shaft and got some good shots until the motor bearing gave out.

So far they're ok as the motor is well supported, but we haven't run it much yet.

[Justin Shelley]

i believe our robot will be capable of shooting from feeder station but i fear a defensive robot will park infront of us nd block us. is that legal?

[DanielCH]

Originally Posted by Justin Shelley

i believe our robot will be capable of shooting from feeder station but i fear a defensive robot will park infront of us nd block us. is that legal?

As long as they adhere to space restrictions, yes.

There is no rule against simply being in the way of a shooting robot, but there are plenty of rules you could break while doing so (pinning, etc). See section 3.2.6 "ROBOT-ROBOT Interaction" of the game manual for more information.

We're planning on scoring a little more than over 9000 from the goal. Give or take a little.

[CalTran]

Oh, y'know, we're attending Greater Kansas City, but plan on outscoring OP Robotics at their regionals...

[DonRotolo]

We shoot from about 60 feet away. But the frisbee doesn't go nearly that far
From 12 feet we're 100% easily, from 25 feet almost but not quite, we are seeing some curve at that point. They tell me 40 feet is not bad, but I have not seen it myself.

[Bochek]

We're shooting about 20ft dead straight, no wheels.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Bochek

We're shooting about 20ft dead straight, no wheels.

No wheels? Care to elaborate? Sounds fascinating.

[MrForbes]

30ish feet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rafV51xbnOk

[Alan Anderson]

The first actual frisbee shots from the TechnoKats' frisbee shooter went about 20 feet into a mentor's hands. Consistently.

After tweaking some speeds and wheel placement, it'll regularly send frisbees the full length of the field, starting at about hip level and hitting the tarp behind the goals on a still-upward trajectory. Consistency suffers ever so slightly at that distance. I doubt that'll be the team's strategy during matches, but it's fun to see it working so well.

Whether it works that well on a driveable robot remains to be seen.

[DanielCH]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

The first actual frisbee shots from the TechnoKats' frisbee shooter went about 20 feet into a mentor's hands. Consistently.

After tweaking some speeds and wheel placement, it'll regularly send frisbees the full length of the field, starting at about hip level and hitting the tarp behind the goals on a still-upward trajectory. Consistency suffers ever so slightly at that distance. I doubt that'll be the team's strategy during matches, but it's fun to see it working so well.

Whether it works that well on a driveable robot remains to be seen.

If it's not confidential, would you mind explaining why that wouldn't be your primary strategy during a match?

45 shots into the 3 point goal, even at 75% accuracy, is over 100 points by my calculations -- you could single handedly outscore three top level climbers, even without points you could make in autonomous or climbing.

It seems quite ideal, assuming your motors can hold up against 45 shots in 120 seconds.

[vic burg]

Wow, I'm impressed! With our (4622's) first shooter we get maybe 8-9 feet at peak with 50% power and around 6 feet if it's 100% or 25% power which is really random but we're working on it and other shooter designs. We know the main issue with our shooter is the track it follows (the piece that helps to guide) is not at the right curve so once we get that fixed we'll probably be shooting further. Height is only around 5 feet, though.