pic: Toltechs drive-train teaser

[Andrew Schuetze]

Originally Posted by greencactus3

wow thats pretty high up. are you going to be able to suck in the balls that roll in from the sides too?
or better yet from all 4 sides?? if i had holonomic drive thats what id wanna do.
otherwise, i love the spiral. someone has a lot of time lol

I am seriously hoping that this thing drives tomorrow. We are 8 inches off the floor with the frame so that balls can move under from 3 sides and be whisked into our con-VADER. The idea of the omni-drive is that if balls are boucing and rolling over the court, one just swerves to the side and harvests them.

Like I said though, it is untested and we have to put the belt/fabric on the con-VADER and then mount our cannon. Weight is becoming an issue

Thanks for the positive comments and yes the students did describe their ball sweeper design to the mentors as,"You know ... like under a vacumm cleaner"