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Re: Capping 177

Not to knock 358 for their brilliant strategy, it took some big balls to pull off (just one really ) but I feel it should be noted for all scouts who may see the picture that 177 continued to herd balls and narrowly win the match
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Oooohhhhh...

Big arm.

How'd they do during the rest of the competition?
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Re: pic: Capping 177

How'd who do? Us or them?

We went on to win the regional, they however continued to play an excellent game into the elimination rounds where I believe they made it to the semi-finals. However, I could be wrong on that.
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Thank you. It was an amazing day, let me tell you that.
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Re: pic: Capping 177

Hey Evan, you obviously had a reliable ball delivery system for your net. Can you give me some detail on the working of it?
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Hey Evan, you obviously had a reliable ball delivery system for your net. Can you give me some detail on the working of it?
Im not evan, but can answer the question just as well... at the front of the robot we have a knurrled roller thats about 12 inches off the ground, it runs the full width of the robot (about 2.5 balls worth)... The roller is run by a globe motor that has had one set of planetary gears taken out to give us the speed and power that we wanted. The motor is actually anchored inside of the roller so it gives us a direct drive with no loss of power, but at the same time doesnt take up much additional space. In the hopper itself there is a conveyor made of polycord which is run by a geared vandoor motor to keep the balls from jamming... This system results in excellent performance picking up and delivering the balls

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Hey Evan, you obviously had a reliable ball delivery system for your net. Can you give me some detail on the working of it?
Our team also had a hopper. The hopper itself worked great and we caught 16 or 17 balls every time, but our delivery of them didn't account for the small lip inside the ball corral, and we lost many of the balls.

Oh, well. Glad yours worked for you.
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Re: pic: Capping 177

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Im not evan, but can answer the question just as well... at the front of the robot we have a knurrled roller thats about 12 inches off the ground, it runs the full width of the robot (about 2.5 balls worth)... The roller is run by a globe motor that has had one set of planetary gears taken out to give us the speed and power that we wanted. The motor is actually anchored inside of the roller so it gives us a direct drive with no loss of power, but at the same time doesnt take up much additional space. In the hopper itself there is a conveyor made of polycord which is run by a geared window motor to keep the balls from jamming... This system results in excellent performance picking up and delivering the balls
Thank you very much for your response. Know I've just got to figure a way to apply a similar system to our robot...
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Re: pic: Capping 177

I don't mean to be the Devil's advocate here, but don't expect to get it right your first time. I will say that 177 has tried several times to do small balls, and it took forever to finally get a system that works. A lot of it is just trying and trying till you get it to work. I'm sure you'll get it eventually.

Also, it's minor, but the polycord conveyer on our bot is actually powered by a van door motor while the basket is currently opened by a geared window motor. This may change and we may be opening the basket with vacuum because its much more forgiving.
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Re: pic: Capping 177

I love seeing pics like these lol! I definitely want to try to see if we can do that in atlanta... it just looks so funny to me to see one robot capping another!!
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Re: pic: Capping 177

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I don't mean to be the Devil's advocate here, but don't expect to get it right your first time. I will say that 177 has tried several times to do small balls, and it took forever to finally get a system that works. A lot of it is just trying and trying till you get it to work. I'm sure you'll get it eventually.

Also, it's minor, but the polycord conveyer on our bot is actually powered by a van door motor while the basket is currently opened by a geared window motor. This may change and we may be opening the basket with vacuum because its much more forgiving.
Oh i understand entirely. We have a ball hopper too, and our only proble has always been the delivery of the balls. We played with it all through our regional comp, with limited sucess. Hopefully that will change for nationals. Thanks for your help.

P.S. I dont want to be intrusive, but do you have pics of the system you have?
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Re: pic: Capping 177

It's not intrusive. If I had pics, I'd get them for you, but alas, I couldn't find any on my computer. However, feel completely free to stop by our pit at the nationals. I'm sure anyone in our pit would be more than willing to show you all the components of our bot. Depending on who you talk to, you might just get the whole talk, from the unique and innovative vacuum to the rollers. ;D

You'll figure out the important factors in delivering the balls. I'm sure you're doing it, but you should work on developing some ideas for systems now before Atlanta so you can make them there. The thing we had the most problems with, but is probably the most important thing (or it appeared to me but what do i know? I'm only an electronics guy) is the grip on the balls. If you have a good grip, and you have a good speed kicker, you can deliver the balls fairly efficiently. If its too loose, no matter how fast your kicker is, it won't move anything. If its too tight, it will just lift your robot on top of the ball instead of kick it.

Without seeing your bot, I couldn't tell you what I think is the problem and what you can do to fix it, but i'm sure you'll take a look at it and go ah hah! and get it. It happens all the time.
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Well thank you for your help. You've been most gracious.
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