pic: AIR Strike 78 2012

[Brandon Holley]

Rick and Co. -

Looks awesome as usual! Unique take on the rotating turret/shooter assembly. Do you guys drive over the barrier as well?

I'll be buy to check it out in person this weekend.

-Brando

[CalTran]

It may be just the picture, but what is the little protrusion and flat piece of aluminum at the very top of of your robot for?

[JamesCH95]

Sweet looking 'bot!

See you at GSR again, maybe for another collaboration?

[waialua359]

Nicely engineered and clean cut as always.

Just a quick question, what made you folks decide to have a turret for the entire shooter mechanism as opposed to a turret head? In 2009, we had a setup like yours but opted to go with the head only instead for this season.

[Ty Tremblay]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Just a quick question, what made you folks decide to have a turret for the entire shooter mechanism as opposed to a turret head? In 2009, we had a setup like yours but opted to go with the head only instead for this season.

From above:

Originally Posted by Ricksta

We decided to rotate the feed and the turret together to ensure the ball was consistently hitting the shooter wheels the same way on every shot. Also, if for some reason the turntable bearings broke (including our spares), or we needed to remove the turret feature due to weight, the turret could be mounted directly to the chassis.

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Nicely engineered and clean cut as always.

Just a quick question, what made you folks decide to have a turret for the entire shooter mechanism as opposed to a turret head? In 2009, we had a setup like yours but opted to go with the head only instead for this season.

121 also had huge success with this style system in 2006 so I'm sure the 78 was knowledgeable in this area when designing their robot.

[waialua359]

Sorry for not reading ALL of the posts above.
There are two things we did to address some issues we had in 2009.
We went with just a turret head this year to limit the issues with bearings falling out from the entire feeding/shooter mechanism. Seems like you have that addressed already.
Our other revision for this year was mounting aluminum reinforcement ring plates both on the outer and inner part of the turntable to prevent warping of any sort and no bearings falling out, due to HEAVY defense and hitting on OUR part.