How to get the ball over the overpass!?

[joeweber]

We have successfully used a pneumatic to throw the ball over the rack. Pictures of our test robot and some drawings at http://team1322.org/team_news.htm . The idea is to raise the fork lift to just under the rack and with forward motion and pneumatics you can easily throw the ball over with out stopping. The question is will another team be able to drive in front of us to catch the ball so we don’t have to chase it?

[Gdeaver]

Raising the ball and giving it a little lob while staying within the 80" cylinder and dealing with the equal but opposite reaction thing is challenging.

[Cooley744]

cannon...lol jk

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by Gdeaver

Raising the ball and giving it a little lob while staying within the 80" cylinder and dealing with the equal but opposite reaction thing is challenging.

and that's what makes this all so much fun!

[joeweber]

Originally Posted by Gdeaver

Raising the ball and giving it a little lob while staying within the 80" cylinder and dealing with the equal but opposite reaction thing is challenging.

Most defiantly our biggest challenge. I wonder how they are going to check this rule. Maybe they will have a large cylinder that you must run your robot up and down inside?