FRC 2013 "Best Designs" Log

[Mark Sheridan]

Originally Posted by JB987

How about effective utilization of a turret with target lock? A limited club for sure...

I am nominating 987 for these:

Shooter: An accurate turreted curved shooter that could target lock both the 3 point and 2 point goal. They also had a neat little piston the could eject an upside down disc into the 1 point goal. It could score many locations on the field including FCS.

Center Disc Autonomous: To me it was the best in the world. If they were bumped during auto or something went wrong, the robot could also target the 2 disk goal. I recall it also beat 469 to the center discs.

Ground Pickup: The system was very elegant and took up very little room. I was amazed, it moved a disc from horizontal to vertical and back to horizontal. I never saw it jam. They used a cool move where they picked up one disk at the loading station and loaded the remaining 3 via feeder. The system used a roller on a spring loaded arm to move it on a polycarbonate scoop, the a spring loaded belt would carry it up vertically to the hopper.