pic: Team 1024 Before and After

[Allison]

Thanks Meredith!

Originally Posted by RMS11

Which preformed better? What was the biggest advantage of each? Sweet looking bot both ways!

The shooter ended up ranked 28th at Midwest.
The dumper ended up ranked 6th at Wisconsin.

The advantage of the shooter was ideally that it could shooter in any direction.

The advantage of the dumper is the ability to score many balls quickly. The feed to our shooter was a bit slow so the dumper is much faster. Our dumper scored consistently while our shooter did not.

We also had issues with the camera code bogging down the driving code and creating lag at the Midwest Regional. Removal of the shooter and turret code gave our driver much more control.

Originally Posted by joshsmithers

Awesome! I see we weren't the only team to change from shooter to dumper. Rather than one hour to change over, it took us 6 hours. We were very satisfied with our new dumper. The most noticeable change was that our scoring success rate went up.

Questions: It looks like you use a spinning bar. What motor do you have turning that? Also, what is the height of the bottom of your hopper? (Ours was 45" high.)

We brought our dumper in as a 19 lb assembly ready to be riveted on to our hopper (matching hole pattern in both top plates). Allowing for a quick efficient change.

the bottom of our hopper is at approx 48" off the ground. Our robot as shown at Wisconsin in 59" tall. The spinning bar as you call it is a .035 Wall Aluminum tube cover in velcro, the motor running it is the banebot motor (RS-545) with a 5:1 gear box