Forwards and Backwards Ball Pickup

[atucker4072]

Originally Posted by geomapguy

not sure...I'm not on 624

I know I was just pointing out that the other options that could have been done and thinking why they would have done it opposed to other ideas.

Overall there is no need for a way to pick up from both sides of a robot this year because it will be just as fast as making a 180 degree turn. Also do to limited space you couldn't have a shooter that could shoot with a huge distance. But this is just drawing from the ri3d revel videos.

[themccannman]

Yes, one intake on each side.

#3ballorbust

[evanatch]

Our team spent a lot of time discussing this today, and reached the conclusion that having a double-sided pickup would cause more problems than it would solve for us. We are using a single roller arm to pick up balls (similar to Build Blitz team JVN), and the double sided intake (via flipping the arm to the other side) resulted in some weird geometry and problems storing the ball. We figured the small advantage gained by not having to turn around in some situations wasn't really worth the trade off (especially since we're a rookie team). Instead, we chose to place our pickup on the back of the robot, and the passer/shooter on the front to better facilitate passes.