pic: Homemade Orbit Ball! (White Paper Coming Soon)

[artdutra04]

Word on the streets is that there may be an announcement about the Orbit Ball availability in sometime later today (Tuesday).

Because of that, we're currently holding off on releasing the white paper and video until then.

However, as it stands we still are looking to release this white paper. Even if a reliable source for these balls is made available, our polycarbonate replicate ones are much more durable (while having nearly identical characteristics), which is very important for human player practicing. Because while FIRST events may have hundreds of spare ones, with the economy the way it currently is, nearly all team budgets won't allow for this, ;-)

Originally Posted by FoleyEngineer

Team910 - The Foley Freeze tried our hand at making a ball today too. It came out pretty nice! We measured the strips in the KOP ball at 1 1/8 wide BTW, and created a duplicate by cutting strips and riviting them together (two at each overlapping joint). Here's a picture of the new ball (clear plastic) next to the KOP one, and then it wrapped in shiny duct tape - for fun!

It looks good. The dual 1/8" pop rivets is the exact same method we used on ours, and so far holds really well.