My comments on shooters

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by Dad1279

There are only 4 balls in play. I would imagine that the refs(or spotters), probably 2 per side, could easily keep track of and stop or deflect the out of bounds balls.

I tend to agree with this view, and I was under the impression that most of the sides of the field (read: except the gates) have a ~6' polycarb wall for ball containment... granted, we'll be launching balls ~7+' in the air.

I'm not too worried about throwing it over the opposing driver station... the physics makes it difficult to impart the kind of energy into the ball required to do that.

And while there are no physical lockouts built into our design (besides simply releasing the pressure from our pneumatics), the code has been written with several lockouts to prevent launching when our mechanism isn't in the proper position (read: we have a 'pickup' position, a 'carry/armed' position, and a 'just launched' position, and its the transition from carry->launch that imparts all of our force into the ball... and its all pneumatic. Although, unlike some of 1075's previous 'multi-position' pneumatic designs, like our 2007 arm, it's not a 'stop-anywhere' pneumatic setup.) It is impossible (read: the code doesn't allow it) for the robot to attempt to launch from the 'pickup' position.