pic: 3572's bot coming together

[MrBasse]

The angled piece up front is in fact for picking up balls and pushing down the ramp. We have two cylinders driving it, and it is flow controlled but can still come down with quite the wallop. The pneumatic tires are the Harbor Freight variety that we had set up for a six wheel drive with non-marring wheelchair tires on them. Our robot turned out to be quite heavy with our original plan so we shed 45lbs in about fifteen minutes by taking off our old method of wheel articulation and came up with a newer lighter model...

As for centering the ball onto the fixed shooter, we plan to build a two stage funnel system that will have one half connected to the pick up and the other half mounted on the upper part of the super structure.

Thanks for the comments, we are really trying to make our robot perform well this year, but have it look really nice while doing it too. We always joke that when you build something that is nice and organized you always have to butcher it to fix things on it, but planning has paid off so far and our systems have stayed mostly where we had originally planned. It's going to be super nice to have a single board of pneumatics and another board that is solely electronics.

We have everything plumbed and wired as of tonight and ran some manual tests and everything works just the way it should...just have to build the funnel and put some protective shields on it and we should be good.