Ball Pick-up

[Tim566]

How many balls can your robot pick up (Not store) off the floor at one time?
OK perhaps I need to clarify due to confusion some people have had. The question is, if there was a clump of 30 balls (extremely unlikely) and your bot ran it over, in one pass how many would it collect? I apologize if my meaning wasn't clear enough. I think that is clear enough.

[Specialized]

Between 3 and 4.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

I'm not sure what the question is asking... Is it asking how many your robot can pick up at one instant in time? (essentially the width of your pick-up mechanism) Or, is it asking for the capacity of your hopper?

We can pick up 4 instantaneously.

60+ over the match (if there is that many on the field!)

[Andrew Blair]

We can pick up two simultaneously, but it's impossible for anyone to pick up more than 8 balls at once, unless they can compress them to a very small size before picking them up. 60in/7in ~ 8 balls.

Overall, the sky's the limit. We don't really know.

[Greg Marra]

Twenty five poll options were probably not necessary here. Maybe categories like 0-3, 4-10, 10-20, 21+ would have been easier to analyze the results for.

[henryBsick]

I am confused. If this question is asking how many balls can be picked up simultaneously at one point in time like Tom said, you don't need anywhere near 25 poll options.

If this poll is asking hopper capacity please search before you post.
Hopper Capacity

222's Claw can simultaneously pick up three balls at a time and after our weight modifications hold 30-35 balls.

[Tim566]

probably but I know our bot could easily pick up a dozen balls with our system. So I figured I would leave plenty of extra space because someone probably can pick up more because there is always someone better.

[Jherbie53]

I think he's asking "how many balls can you pick up and store in your robot". I also think categories would have been better, because some people will be able to pick up more than 25.

[Tim566]

Originally Posted by Jherbie53

I think he's asking "how many balls can you pick up and store in your robot". I also think categories would have been better, because some people will be able to pick up more than 25.

actually I am asking at one time how many balls can your robot suck up off the ground. sorry if the wording wasn't clear enough.

[team1852]

Our bot can pick up 2-3 balls at once. It can also hold 10+ balls in the hopper without problem.

-team 1852

[Steve S.]

if we pick up two, the conveyor wont grab them right and they get stuck so we only pick up 1

[Starke]

we have the ability to pick up 3 balls off the floor at one time if the balls are there.

[Eldarion]

Conveyor was designed for two balls at once, but is wide enough that it should be able to handle three at once and maybe even four.

[Rick TYler]

If you are talking about how many balls you can pick up simultaneously, I am sore confused. Twenty-five balls at seven inches each is 175 linear inches of balls. Unless you can figure out some way to suck balls in from multiple sides at once you are mathematically restricted to a 60" length, which is eight balls.

I'm pretty sure you don't understand your question.

[artdutra04]

We can pick up 2-3 balls at once. While testing our robot, we were able to feed 25 balls into our intake rollers in about 10-12 seconds.