DISTANT shooter BOTS

[petek]

Originally Posted by edboy

about the 12 m/s rule
we (1261)... couldn't get a radar check, either at regionals or nationals ...

I can't speak for the events you were at, but at the three regionals I worked all you had to do was ask and the inspectors would check your shooter speed.

During build season Team 103 tried to use a sports radar gun, but like most got too much interference from the shooting mechanism, so we built our own time-of-flight speedometer to calibrate our shooter. We actually were rather worried that we were over the limit because of the range we were getting (past half-field), and needed the speed check to make sure we were legal (we were). As mentioned earlier and elsewhere, the lift generated by back-spin extends your range quite a bit! FWIW, we shot at 11.4 ~ 11.7 m/s - except for when the shooter got cranky and they just dribbled out...