How do the Shooters work?

[kaszeta]

Originally Posted by Sam N.

Pneumatic pistons by themselves (directly pushing a ball) are not enough to get the ball over the overpass when firing from the ground.

I always love reading quotes like this, since Team 95's robot does exactly this, with quite a bit of margin:



Yes, we use six cylinders in a two-stage arrangement, and it took more than a little tweaking, but we are "directly pushing on the ball" with nothing but pneumatic pistons. We could get even better performance if we triggered the two stages separately at staggered intervals, but we called this setup good enough.