We're carrying in a replacement for all of our frisbee-related functionality. It's mostly a bolt-on job; tear off the old top and replace it with the new one, but there's a bit of rewiring work to be done as well.
We've switched from a linear-ish storage system for frisbees that caused a lot of control systems challenges to a collector + bucket system. We should be collecting frisbees much faster now and, with the mechanism that was causing frisbees to jam completely gone, firing much faster and more reliably. And in the 3 pt. goal, too. The new system replaces everything -- new collector, new bucket storage, and new shooter -- and reuses only the electronics board.
The whole thing is about 22 lbs. We prototyped a bit with buckets in the week after Portland, designed the entire new system in about 3 hours on Saturday morning and had the entire thing assembled and testing by Sunday evening. I'm not sure what took us 6 weeks the first time around.
This year's theme is "It will be neat if it works!" - s_forbes [more] 
20-03-2013, 18:42
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