FRC 2013 "Best Designs" Log

[NXTGeek]

Originally Posted by topgun

Was the roller on the DDI powered? What happened with frisbees that were upside down?

Yes, it is powered by a AM-9015 and a VEXPro VersaPlanetary 15-1 Gearbox.
We originally had it design as a modified CD7 intake. It worked great and pickup from 90* corners, but we took the sideways wheels out and replaced it with polycarb to index two frisbees at once (making 7 disk auto possible). (See photo, it had belt connecting the so dart side sets and bevel gears for the primary)
On upside-down frisbees: tell you the truth, our original design had us climbing to 30, shooting full court 3s and pyramid goal, picking up and shooting upside-down disks.
Glad our strategy got streamlined. We lift the DDI if we get an upside-down disk, and drive backwards. I had some designs that would flip disks, and designs that would lift and shoot them, but they got outed. One time we got an upside-down disk through the feeder slot into our hopper, and our trigger pneumatic flipped it right side up!