pic/vid: Team 1114 - Simbot Panthro

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Jeff 801

Did you guys build a pratice bot as seen at 1:21 and 1:55 in the video or are there twins?

By that I mean I see another full looking robot and not the bot that is pulling the trailer around during the video.

Yup, our practice robot is parked in the corner of the field during the videos. We wanted to run them both at the same time, but issues with control system popped up.

Originally Posted by rc_cola1323

Karthik, that alignment of the balls is pretty crazy. How did you get it working that well?

Design is an iterative process. We went through many iterations of our hopper and ball conveyor. What we first built in week three is very different than what we have now. It just took a look of tweaking. We tried different motor configurations, sorting rollers, ball paths, friction materials and funnels. We'll be watching closely at Midwest, looking for ways to further optimize the solution.