Robotic Beach Volleyball?

[Andrew Schreiber]

<Unrelated Advice> Playing volleyball with trackballs can be painful</Unrelated>

Change 2008's robots to play volleyball with trackballs would be interesting, I would say only shooters would really be able to do it. The real issue is tracking the balls, I don't think that our current hardware can do this in real time, perhaps instead of volleying we make the robots hit a target with the large balls OVER a net, similar concept to volleyball but eliminates the need for vision processing of a moving object in 3-d

[Dan2081]

Hehe 2081's 08 bot could prolly play volleyball pretty well if we slapped on mechanum wheels

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

<Unrelated Advice> Playing volleyball with trackballs can be painful</Unrelated>

this also goes for kickball

[IKE]

What about a robot playing Super Pong. Two robots in zones 2 feet off of the wall, and fire the balls back and forth at each other. If a ball hits your wall, the other team scores. Playing that with the Trackballs would be great fun!

2D would be easier to track, and "might" slow the approach. There are actually a couple of ways that the 2D could probably go faster than throwing it.....