pic: Beach 'Bot view 1

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

so how many balls can this beast hold? I'm surprised to see so many bots with the spiral helix decision and i love it!

Somewhere around 20 in the spiral, with another two or three or maybe four in the loader.

The way the spitter works (I was on the shooter design team, which also did the spitter/loader): the balls come out of the spiral into the blue part. If you look at Picture 2, on one corner you see a flat blue surface with a motor and some belting around it. The balls come out onto that and the belt grabs them and either pulls them up the back of the robot to the shooter (powered by 1 big CIM in the low front), which releases them with a backspin, or pulls them out the front of the robot, right under the shooter power motor.

For the loader belting, I think it came from McMaster. I'm not exactly sure what type it is though.