pic: Team 2590's 2013 Robot

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Originally Posted by lynca

Congrats on the 17-1 record and regional win !

Thanks! We rolled a lot of what we learned last year into this robot.

Originally Posted by lynca

1. What coupling mechanism do you have in between your shooter motor and shooter wheel?

The motor couplings are beam couplers from Ruland (http://www.ruland.com/ps_couplings_flexible.asp). We used them on our shooter last year as well (cim-sim's in that case).

Originally Posted by lynca

2. What type of spotlight are you using?

LED Ring lights from superbrightleds.com, same vendor as almost everyone used last year. We're using a 60mm and an 80mm green ring. They're epoxied onto the plastic camera housing. One is plenty, but we like having a bit of redundancy/overkill in that instance. We caught a stray frisbee on Saturday that killed 3 of the LED's. We might try putting a clear plastic shield over the LED's to prevent that in the future. Last year we left it exposed with no issues.

Originally Posted by lynca

3. Did you use the spotlight in your autonomous and in teleoperation?

Yes, we're using it in both modes. We use the data to calculate distance and angle from target. That data feeds into the shooter wheel speed control and a "turn to target" function. The turn to target still needs a little tuning for autonomous.