Team 2992 Week "Too Close!"

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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

This is extremely impressive for a rookie team, congrats 2992! A couple questions: Do you plan on using the camera for automatic targeting? Do you have an adjustable range on your shooter, either by changing muzzle velocity or take off angle? What is your maximum reliable range?

Great job guys, I hope you get all the tweaks out before ship!

To answer the post above yours, it will hold 8 balls, we only have 2 orbit balls to play with thanks to all the local Wal-Marts being sold out.

For your question, we are planning to use the camera for automatic targetting and range finding. The code works on the camera off the robot, we hope it works as well once we get it integrated to the turret tonight or tommorrow. The shooter is adjustable range by adjusting the velocity of the wheel and preliminary tests show that to be sufficient. (We were gonna have an adjustable angled hood if that didn't work)

Right now we are only shooting 7 feet, but that is reliable. You can see the balls hit the mill in the exact same place on the mill in the video. We are probably gonna up a sprocket and increase the wheel speed to see if we can increase the range some. That is all tuning and practice stuff for when we get the local school gym for the weekend to practice finally.

The students are really doing a good job. The mentors (me and one other) are in our 4th year so that helped to steer the students towards a pretty cool looking functional robot. Hopefully it will play well and the students will enjoy their regional.