pic: Team 2791 Complete

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Originally Posted by JewishDan18

Great looking robot (especially next to our wooden collector)! Didn't have much time to see you guys play; too busy figuring our stuff out. One thing I noticed was that your robot has what appears to be six air tanks on your robot. You guys planning on crossing the dridge that often?

Actually, because the elevator is on the same motor as the intake, we needed a way to run the intake without moving balls towards the shooter. To solve this problem, there is a lexan "backboard" that is attached to a piston. The piston changes the compression against the ball enough such that, when the "backboard" is in the back position, we can run the elevator and the balls just spin in place. Once we engage the backboard, the balls have enough compression to move towards the shooter. Thus, in short, we require movement of a piston each time we wish to shoot a load of balls as well.

We did find, through experimentation at the field, that we had enough air to last us approximately 7 minutes of full game simulation. One of the upgrades we plan to make for BAE is to remove the cluster of tanks and replace them with a few plastic ones.