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[matchpoint04]

What do you guys think of our robot?

[Madison]

Originally Posted by matchpoint04

What do you guys think of our robot?

It's nice to see an old school ball hopper show up on CD once more Good job!

[Matt Adams]

It looks like it could handle about 14....

[Lord Nerdlinger]

looks simple and effective, i'm sure that'd be a good alliance partner for a lot of teams

[ZACH P.]

It's got big balls. lol Our team has followed quite a similar path, we'll see how it turns out for us. Does your expand?

[matt111]

we have similar design. we can get 7-9 last time i saw. how are the balls raised up into the hopper?

[Collin Fultz]

it looks good guys! i've been wondering who is actually planning picking up the balls. it will make an amazing partner. good work

[pras870]

Finally, a robot to gather and disturibute balls! I thought the concept had been abandoned, but you brought hope back!

[Tom Bottiglieri]

did you modify the fisher price motor's gear box at all? That looks like 2 inch PVC for the roller. We tried out the same thing, but the motor ran way to slow to pick up anything quickly.

[MisterX]

Kudos to you guys the first ball collector of the year on CD. Anyways that is a nice robot. Just curious do you just line up with the ball corral and put it in reverse with the same mechanism that collected the balls? or is there some other output that I am not seeing

[Adam Y.]

Kudos to you guys the first ball collector of the year on CD. Anyways that is a nice robot. Just curious do you just line up with the ball corral and put it in reverse with the same mechanism that collected the balls? or is there some other output that I am not seeing

It would appear that the balls would be able to be backed out the way they came. Nice job on your robot.

did you modify the fisher price motor's gear box at all? That looks like 2 inch PVC for the roller. We tried out the same thing, but the motor ran way to slow to pick up anything quickly.

I know we ran a two to one gear ratio and our balls move slowly. We might try making a replacement one after the robot is done.

[Paul H]

Do they all come out when put in reverse? We found that the balls will get jammed with only two rollers.

[matchpoint04]

The 3" PVC is hooked directly to the Fisher Price Motor. There is a ramp behind it gives the balls support as they go up. It is a bit slower than we would like but seems to work just fine.

To get the balls out the motor is reversed and they all come out. We have had very few problems jamming balls because the opening is just wide enough for two balls to go through. More testing will be conducted though.

Thanks for all the encouragement!

[Max Lobovsky]

You can actually force balls in from the bottom when you already have 10 or so in there? That's kind of surprising.