9179 off season project tacodile

[Max Boord]

Originally Posted by ollien

This looks great. Color me intrigued. I can see the purple hooks that you're using to hold down your catapult, but what are you latching onto for the short shot? Are you hooking onto those white pegs under the catapult arm? Where's the hook those catch on?

2 pneumatically activated short shot hooks catch on a 1/2 inch diameter rod at the bottom of the catapult arm. They stop the catapult at 25 degrees and let us make shots from all the way against the tower to having our front wheels just touching the batter. It wasn't really shown in the video but the long shot can make it in from about 3-4 feet back from the batter giving us the ability to make a shot from nearly anywhere on the field.

Originally Posted by Connor McBride

watch out for those fouls! (2:01)

The intake automatically lifts up when the robot detects it has a ball so its actually rather difficult to pick up multiple balls. The auto lift is still being tuned a little as it sometimes dosn't detect heavily worn boulders or boulders with chunks taken out of them. Both should not be issues on a real field as some of the boulders in our shop are well past the point where they would be taken off the field.