pic: 1902 Rookie Robot and Teaser

[Dan Richardson]

Actually as far as weight we are having the opposite problem, we were aiming to have a shooter and an elevator. When we had to scrap the 2 programs we ended up way underweight. The robot you see there weighs like 100 lbs, we are trying to devise ways to add weight creatively.

As far as the intake roller, the video may be deseptive but it does suck the balls in due to compression, instead of using raw speed we compress the ball on the intake forcing the ball to find its lowest energy state. Speeding it up would help some on pushing the balls out, but as is we are able to unload 10 balls on the ramp in just under 2 seconds. It would allow for us to push the balls faster and roll them at a distance but where is now seems to be working, we'll deffinately however have to keep this in mind while testing this week.