How to get the ball over the overpass!?

How about dribbling the ball from below. As you drive around you start bouncing the ball straight up in the air. You only have to add a small amound of energy with each bounce thus everything would be quite safe. With each bounce it gets higher and higher and as you pass under the overpass you stop the robot and the ball keeps going. Then you run under the ball and catch it for the next lap. I think a robot that can dribble would definitely earn your team some kind of technical award.

[George1902]

Originally Posted by JesseK

We'll also have some 2" Bose speakers on the right side of our robot pointing to the crowd that will play a nice BOOM whenever the ball is shot.

Sounds like you'd be a perfect alliance partner for us! We'll install our own speakers and play miketwalker yelling out "Oink, oink!" just before you fire!

I can smell the Einstein gold already...

[ar2]

our team is considering the forklift + electric actuator design.

We would forklift the ball atleast 3' above the ground and use the actuator to hurdel the ball over the overpass... of course balance is crucial in this case, but if we tilt fork lift so it would form a right triangle from the back of the robot of the front, all the weight will be on the center of the bot rather than the front...

what do you think??

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Hmm, can you prove that's a legal power source? As long as you don't use gerbils, I suppose it passes the flowchart.

Well you think with over 16 years in the business some form of mutation would show up. That or it's a particularly potent form of geekiness.