pic: FRC488 - Overview

[Madison]

Originally Posted by Tytus Gerrish

I Like, Very Elegant. just looking . seems like you drop the hopper down to drop balls into the collector feed to launch. Beautifully skeleton look and the adjustable chassis for chain tension, Id love to see how that works out.

Yes, that's exactly how the hopper works. We are useless without a working collector along the bottom, so why aggravate ourselves by trying to do something like that in duplicate? Instead, we've opted to reuse the same mechanism to load from the hopper and move balls up to the shooter, should we opt to use it for that purpose. The hopper also will have a method for gravity-feeding the 1-point corner goals that is not displayed. It's way down on the list of things to do.

The chassis isn't adjustable for chain tension in a specific sense, but rather, is completely modular. The modules that hold the transmissions, motors, wheels, chain and sprockets are self-contained and can be removed from the robot after removing four bolts from each side. I'll see if I can't find a picture of the unassembled chassis to show what I mean.