10 Balls per second?

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by EricRobodox

I dont think it works. I put it into Adobe Audition and split the audio file out. I inverted, reversed, and both togethe and i still dont get no koo koo cachooo.

it hut lol. makes a cool drum beat though.

Ummm, wow.

Unfortunately, you cannot always tell when some things are jokes on forums, because we only can rely on text and a limited number of similies. But Ken's post about playing it backwards and hearing John Lennon was a definitely funny joke and nothing more. But it is funny to see how some people take everything they read and believe it to death.

[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

Ummm, wow.

Unfortunately, you cannot always tell when some things are jokes on forums, because we only can rely on text and a limited number of similies.

and where the info is posted (in the 'rumor mill' threads for example?)

[EricRobodox]

I did because i was bored. I knew it was probably a joke. I have too much free time on my hands when my robotics class doesnt meet today because of the holiday and i didnt have to get to bed early last night. I went to bed at like 3 am. which is late for me, unless i pull the all nighter.

Also, my music editing software was already up, and i thought it would be funny.

[amateurrobotguy]

FAKE, I got PROOF it is a Fake. Check out the attached pic to explain it all or read and/or read explanation. Look at the bottom of the goal. watch as the balls to 'throuth the goal right', as they cross through the goal and WE KNOW that the balls go into the goal, disappear as they are blocked from view by the bottom of the ring and reappear in the gap and then disappear again when they go behind the stand. However, they are being caught by a guy standing IN FRONT of the goal into a garbage can. NOT POSSIBLE. TOTAL FAKE.

I suspect they overlayed 2 videos. Look as the video is playing at the where that midle arrow is pointing, that 1 top of a ball glimpse is there for a while in the video. Any other guesses on how they faked it?

I suspected fake in the first place because he said it was in the rumor mill not robot showcase.

This IS a real mechanism, but is not neccesarily mounted on a robot. The top of the 'device' was 60" off the ground. It uses a single 7" wheel spinning at ~1750rpm. The balls exit the device at around 35 degrees. It would shoot faster if we had a method of feeding them faster.

Yeah...real as a SOFTBALL LAUNCHER!!!!!

[BoyWithCape195]

Yea I just noticed that, I had to watch it multiple times to understand what I was actually seeing...

[gondorf]

i actually believed it because i am very gullible.

also i want to try and find a way to get my team out of the time hole.

so this really isnt real? it seemed it

[RogerR]

Originally Posted by amateurrobotguy

FAKE, I got PROOF it is a Fake. Check out the attached pic to explain it all or read and/or read explanation. Look at the bottom of the goal. watch as the balls to 'throuth the goal right', as they cross through the goal and WE KNOW that the balls go into the goal, disappear as they are blocked from view by the bottom of the ring and reappear in the gap and then disappear again when they go behind the stand. However, they are being caught by a guy standing IN FRONT of the goal into a garbage can. NOT POSSIBLE. TOTAL FAKE.

I suspect they overlayed 2 videos. Look as the video is playing at the where that midle arrow is pointing, that 1 top of a ball glimpse is there for a while in the video. Any other guesses on how they faked it?

I suspected fake in the first place because he said it was in the rumor mill not robot showcase.

Yeah...real as a SOFTBALL LAUNCHER!!!!!

if you watch the video, you will see that the trashcan is held by a guy standing behind the goal, and in the frame you posted, he is blocked from view by the man standing in the foreground.

i find it disappointing that so many of you have trouble trusting your fellow FIRSTers. several reliable people have said that this video is not a hoax. maybe y'all should spend less time over-analyzing freeze frames of a teaser video, and more time on the 'bot. i, for one, plan to fire 15 balls through the goal in under a second. eat your heart out, travis .

[KenWittlief]

how do you jam the nerf balls into a softball launcher ?!?!

[gondorf]

i feel that just the fact that they were able to launch that fast is amazing. my team cant launch 1 ball in 10 seconds let alone reversed.

dont disrepute the idea with saying "I have proof its fake". the fact of the mystery is why it is in rumor mill, not the robot showcase.

[jebzter]

the launcher is 100% real. I know this because i made it. it is roughly based on a pitching machine. And it is possible to have a version mounted to a robot.

See yall in competiton.

[amateurrobotguy]

Originally Posted by jebzter

the launcher is 100% real. I know this because i made it. it is roughly based on a pitching machine. And it is possible to have a version mounted to a robot.

See yall in competiton.

But in the second vidoe, you only launched 5 balls in my guestimated .7 seconds, and I don't quite trust the first video enough. Ok, the launcher is real, but does it 100% launch that many balls?

[Joe Johnson]

Settle Down folks.

#1, if it is not a fake, very impressive, but... ...it is not terribly different than the Rage Team showed with their videos.

#2, if it is a fake, so what? ... ....it is not terribly different than the Rage Team showed with their videos.

#3, let's all try to keep from liable and name calling... ...it is not terribly different than those So and So's over at Rage Team showed with their faked videos - JUST KIDDING!!!

#4 settle down, seriously.

Joe J.

[Lil' Lavery]

Even if it isn't a robot doing it, it proves it can be done. And therefore, there is a high probability that a robot can be built to do it.
So what if it's a fake, it's THEIR time they are using to make a fake video, and its YOUR time you are wasting arguing over it. If it's fake, they can't use it in the competition against you anyway, so get over it...

[Travis Covington]

Rage's device is more impressive than ours, bottom line. What is really funny is that they posted their videos in the Robot Showcase forum, and I posted this in the Rumor Mill. The forum heading has to lead you to SOME conclusions...

[Kyle Love]

We have something to be just about that quick...you will all see it soon enough.