pic: 1829 Carbonauts Teaser

[mocibot]

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[DampRobot]

Frisbee pickup. Push this onto a Frisbee from the top, and it pops into a vertical hopper.

[z_beeblebrox]

Frisbee hopper? (Or above)

[Austin2046]

clearly their climbing mechanism

[inkspell4]

You may want to check the rules I'm not sure if an arc reactor wold be allowed on the robot

And how are the metal brackets mounted to the board?

[akoscielski3]

those are two different halves to your shooter, I believe I can see two cuts in each of the circle's. making them halves. the flanges are to contain the top of the Frisbee and the middle circle and the bottom of the outside circle are rails for the Frisbee to ride on.

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NEXT!

[akoscielski3]

Upon closer review of the picture, there are only cuts on the one side of each circle.

Therefore it is a hopper that helix's us to your shooter.

yes??

[inkspell4]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

Upon closer review of the picture, there are only cuts on the one side of each circle.

Therefore it is a hopper that helix's us to your shooter.

yes??

Or the method of cutting out the center of each circle required them to make the cuts

[akoscielski3]

Originally Posted by inkspell4

Or the method of cutting out the center of each circle required them to make the cuts

have you heard of a jig saw? and drilling a hole first?

[inkspell4]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

have you heard of a jig saw? and drilling a hole first?

Yes!
I just did that earlier today. It was just an idea.

[s_forbes]

This is obviously a holder for a frisbee sample. I assume that you are using a colored frisbee as a physical sample on your robot to calibrate your vision system to the changing lighting conditions on the field, similar to the calibration unit on the Mars Science Laboratory rover.

[inkspell4]

Originally Posted by s_forbes

This is obviously a holder for a frisbee sample. I assume that you are using a colored frisbee as a physical sample on your robot to calibrate your vision system to the changing lighting conditions on the field, similar to the calibration unit on the Mars Science Laboratory rover.

Would a frisbee mounted onto the robot mean they could only hold 3 frisbees for use in shooting?

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

Frisbee pickup. Push this onto a Frisbee from the top, and it pops into a vertical hopper.

Look at the writing on the protective covering on the polycarb. Using that to guess the scale, it seems like it's far larger than a single frisbee.

I'm going with some sort of spiraling and/or rotating frisbee storage.

[mocibot]

Originally Posted by inkspell4

You may want to check the rules I'm not sure if an arc reactor wold be allowed on the robot

And how are the metal brackets mounted to the board?

Rivets

Originally Posted by Austin2046

clearly their climbing mechanism

You'd like to think so!

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

Upon closer review of the picture, there are only cuts on the one side of each circle.

Therefore it is a hopper that helix's us to your shooter.

yes??

It does look like it, doesn't it?

Originally Posted by s_forbes

This is obviously a holder for a frisbee sample. I assume that you are using a colored frisbee as a physical sample on your robot to calibrate your vision system to the changing lighting conditions on the field, similar to the calibration unit on the Mars Science Laboratory rover.

Well, now that's an idea. Might have to let vision tracking people know about that one.

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Look at the writing on the protective covering on the polycarb. Using that to guess the scale, it seems like it's far larger than a single frisbee.

I'm going with some sort of spiraling and/or rotating frisbee storage.

That seems to be the popular idea here, maybe it is...

[Mike Marandola]

It is a Frisbee pick up device that works like one of those bags that pick up golf balls. We prototyped an identical device using surgical tubing going around the bucket.