Disk Orientation

[Keefe2471]

Originally Posted by Orion.DeYoe

When you shoot out the discs and then land on the floor, 4/5 times they land upright. Frisbees are airfoils and they want to stay upright.

Was that including contacting the wall? I would think that the wall would increase the randomness of the frisbees orientation by more then that.

Also, have you tried it firing against the nets that surround the field. One strategy I see being imployed by feeder station bots is if they are blocked by an 84 in defense bot (which they will be if that strategy becomes a meta-game). They simply change angle and chuck them as hard as they can at an angle designed to get over such a defense bot. Then they need a robot with intakes and at the far end to suck frisbees in and fire them. Which it sounds like doesn't require orientation at all. So in that case a third robot needs to be brought in to take those frisbees which are landing fairly randomly do to the net having a bit of give. In that case orientation by that bot is key in order to insure range and some accuracy so it could then quickly turn and fire those to its corresponding offense bot on the other end.

Not sure if that made any sense. I am currently suffering from overexposure to coolant fumes