pic: FRC1293's Power Dumper [With video bonus!]

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Originally Posted by Duncan Macdonald

Do you have a method to "compact" the balls you store? It looks like all the rollers are powered by one belt.

Actually we can hold around 12-16 without compacting. It wasn't our goal to compact. Also yes all of the rollers are powered by 1 chain. The chain just goes from the inside of one sprocket to the outside of another on the way up causing the rollers to go in opposite directions for each other. So far the design is working really really well.

We plan on adding either an optical or sonar type sensor on the intake rollers to ONLY run our manipulator rollers when a ball is picked up to prevent our rollers from running excessively and possibly tearing up the balls.