Shooter vs Dumper Trade Study

[Tom Line]

Originally Posted by hillale

Come on, you've got plenty of room above, let's say the middle length poles on the trailer, to create a large enough pitch in the floor of a hopper for balls to overcome their inertia and friction. A trap door maybe with a fairly large area maybe including part of the front of your robot?

Exactly. We've already proven to ourselves that you don't need one of those fancy spiral/loop systems to efficiently get the balls to feed. You can spin the hopper and pulll balls out ala the killer bees giant gumball machine in '06. You can put a screw in ala a washing machine center post (vertical style, not front load). You can have an agitator/swing arm device. Most all of these will fit above the 34 inches, or a short conveyor belt will let you go all the way down to the robot base with your storage.