Archimedes 2009

[Madison]

Originally Posted by dodar

How do you keep them in your hopper? do you have an unloader kinda like 1625?

Gravity? I'm not intimately familiar with how 1625's machine functions, but our hopper is a cavity and the rear of the robot that is lined with a length of rip-stop nylon fabric. That fabric forms a 'U', with one end fixed to the front of the robot and the other wrapped around a spool driven by two CIMs. We spool the fabric up rapidly and that 'U' becomes a '_' or, really, something closer to a '/'

It's not dissimilar to 20's robot or to any of the machines that lift the balls up from below -- 111 and 1280, for example.