Full Court Shooter!!! (Team 3528 UpNext)

[TheCrayButton]

Here is my teams final shooter for the 2013 season. We are shooting accurately from 60ft away.

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/user/teamupnext?feature=mhee

[Jorge Ayala]

Your shooter is amazing, congratulations. How did you do to deal with de vibration and the recoil force?

[Matthew Wang]

Brilliant!

My team is trying to make our shooter almost exactly the same as yours, including the way you stack frisbees and send them to your shooter. However, we are having problems with getting full court shots that are consistent. Our accuracy and consistency varies quite a bit.

Do you have any tips for making our shooter accurate and consistent? Any tips for the frisbee hopper system as well?

Great job by the way!

[nuggetsyl]

Looks like stock again just went up on 84 inch robots

[MrForbes]

I guess we're gonna put some tread along the arc of our shooter....we are doing ok, but not good enough to make full court.

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

thanks for the video, it's inspiring

[TheCrayButton]

Originally Posted by Matthew Wang

Brilliant!

My team is trying to make our shooter almost exactly the same as yours, including the way you stack frisbees and send them to your shooter. However, we are having problems with getting full court shots that are consistent. Our accuracy and consistency varies quite a bit.

Do you have any tips for making our shooter accurate and consistent? Any tips for the frisbee hopper system as well?

Great job by the way!

What kind of wheel are you using? And what diameter is it?

We are using a 12inch pneumatic wheel. We use 12inches because the frisbee contacts the wheel for a longer period of time. Also, compression is a big part of it. The wheel on ours is fairly flat. It doesn't have much air in it. Therefore, the tire cups the frisbee. We have found the happy medium when compressing the frisbee. If you have to much compression the frisbee will just spit out and not go to far because there is to much friction. If you don't have enough compression, the frisbee won't get that far.

Consistency is hard for sure. We made sure our platform on the curve was slick so the frisbees could slide easily. Also, our curved angle had to be touching the frisbee the same amount of time all the way around the wheel.

The hopper we are still working on. When the bottom frisbee is sitting there waiting to be shot, it is getting sucked in by the wind of the wheel. And when it does that, our frisbee's cup. Also, the whole platform is vibrating, so the frisbee's move a lot. To fix that, we are going to use a pneumatic piston that is vertical and extends on one side of the frisbee, when doing that, it keeps the frisbee in place. When we are ready to shoot, we will pull that piston down and then fire. It then repeats the process.

I hope that helps.

[TheCrayButton]

Originally Posted by Jorge Ayala

Your shooter is amazing, congratulations. How did you do to deal with de vibration and the recoil force?

Thanks!

Yes we do have vibration problems. It actually effects our hopper when the frisbees are stored. That is the only problem as of now.

But overall, the vibration isn't to big of a concern. Everything seems to work well.

[Justin Montois]

Is your strategy to shoot full field in every match or is it just something you wanted to be able to do?

[TheCrayButton]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

Is your strategy to shoot full field in every match or is it just something you wanted to be able to do?

We are planning to shoot full field as much as possible. If for some reason we can't, then we will just shoot at the pyramid.

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by TheCrayButton

We are planning to shoot full field as much as possible. If for some reason we can't, then we will just shoot at the pyramid.

So, effectively, you plan on taking, at maximum, about 6 shots? (Assuming your alliance wants to give you all six colored discs?

[Drivencrazy]

Originally Posted by CalTran

So, effectively, you plan on taking, at maximum, about 6 shots? (Assuming your alliance wants to give you all six colored discs?

I think he means from the pyramid at the high or mid goal still

[TheCrayButton]

Originally Posted by CalTran

So, effectively, you plan on taking, at maximum, about 6 shots? (Assuming your alliance wants to give you all six colored discs?

Oh no no. Sorry I said that wrong. We are not going to shoot at the pyramid itself, we are just going to shoot there so we are in the safe zone. We will be aiming for the 3rd scoring goal.

[neshera]

You may have a shot from one of the corners to the side of the top goal. alternatively, you might be able to shoot through the pyramids. With that much velocity, even accurate shots at the pyramid may glance/bounce off. Overall, very nice job!

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by TheCrayButton

Oh no no. Sorry I said that wrong. We are not going to shoot at the pyramid itself, we are just going to shoot there so we are in the safe zone. We will be aiming for the 3rd scoring goal.

Ah right then. That would make more sense. What height are you shooting from, and will it be a variable height/angle?

[Cory]

Looks awesome.

I like your building.