How fast can your robot shoot?

[Joe_Widen]

Our launcher can shoot as fast as we can load them also. Once we get to around the 10th or 11th ball, they start to shoot a bit shorter(the 15th ball we shot in the four second span hit the ground at 26 ft from the shooter). Also its very accurate. Good Luck to everyone and ill try to post some pictures or videos tomorrow.

[RebelWithARobot]

i believe we will be firing around 10 balls per second

[Elgin Clock]

I'm hoping we shoot balls under the speed limit.
It was spinnin' pretty darn fast the other night.

[Nita]

I believe that our robot can shoot at least 10 balls per second, but we probably won't be doing that at the competition because well... it is very possible for BAMFR(our robot) to shoot 2 balls at the same time!

[irishninja]

on Friday we finally got our spiral integrated with our shooter. WE were pulsing the motors and got a ball per second. I believe that we shot two, waited one, shot two, etc. Id be interested to know a) how accurate that team that shot 15 in 4.5 seconds actually had and b) how much the distance was drastically changed. Loss of energy is not a good thing. Did those balls just flop out? Or did they shoot almost as well as the first one.

[natis]

video
Ours is working pretty good and fast!!
check it out!

[Joe_Widen]

Ours didnt chage very drastically between the first and 15th ball. The only change was maybe 5 feet so i think were in good shape. Especially since we have an almost fool proof spreadsheet made by out GE mentor. Good Stuff. I dont have it with me so I can't upload it, but it makes robots alot less complex.

[akshar]

10balls in a matter of seconds? just wondering if it was moving less than 39m/s...like the rule states...at quincy, 1568 was maxing around 55m/s, we moved it down to 34m/s, now we have to work out some kinks with the low velocity

[Elgin Clock]

There is a FIRST measuring system in place for ball velocity testing.

It's basically 2 sets of 2 sensors making a beam, and you shoot through the sensors, and break the beams, and it calculates your speed.

Be ready to be inspected to this criteria, and change your max speed before you even step onto a field to compete.

Just a friendly heads up!

Good luck to all shooting under the speed limit!

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

There is a FIRST measuring system in place for ball velocity testing.

It's basically 2 sets of 2 sensors making a beam, and you shoot through the sensors, and break the beams, and it calculates your speed.

Be ready to be inspected to this criteria, and change your max speed before you even step onto a field to compete.

Just a friendly heads up!

Good luck to all shooting under the speed limit!

1. Where did you hear this?

2. Duck hunt gun? Really?

[Sgraff_SRHS06]

Originally Posted by Dzdconfusd

1. Where did you hear this?

2. Duck hunt gun? Really?

1. I have no answer for the inspection. The speed limit is in the manual.

2. It means FIRST is playing Nintendo with us.

[lil' kim]

were flirting with legal on velocity but we took it to a basketball game at our school tonight and shot freethrows and it works really well.