pic: Team 3266's Robot

[BurkeHalderman]

Originally Posted by Robby Unruh

We actually chose pieces of plastic duct taped to the walls of our hopper over the bucket. Works just as well!

Just to clarify, we used polycarb and duct tape as a quick fix to solve a jamming problem with the hopper, but we replaced it with .120" aluminum yesterday. This is just our practice robot.

Originally Posted by thef.22raptor

NIIICCEE how does it work

Our drivetrain is pretty simple, 4WD with VexPro Versa wheels and AM Supershifters. Personally I highly recommend the Versa wheels, we're very happy so far with the traction and the wieght.

Our shooter uses a 6" KOP wheel as the flywheel, direct drive off a CIM motor, we have an encoder on the top of the shaft to measure RPM.

For the hopper there is a chute on the back that the frisbees are fed into, it works exactly the same as a 5 gallon bucket. Once the frisbees are stacked in the hopper there is an arm powered by an air cylinder that "kicks" the bottom frisbee into the flywheel.

To raise and lower the shooter we're going with an air cylinder to switch between the loading angle and shooting angle. Just keeping it simple for this system.

And the climber design is still being worked on