Who is using a turret

[dondanvm]

Are you planning on using a turret for 2013? Ultimate Ascent

[Peyton Yeung]

Due to the nature of the game piece we found a turret hard to integrate as well as the fact that the slot is so wide

Peyton

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by dondanvm

Are you planning on using a turret for 2013? Ultimate Ascent

Are YOU planning on using a turret for 2013?

- Sunny G.

[dondanvm]

I can sure see the benefits, but it does complicate things. It is still to be decided

[Mike Marandola]

By turret do you mean side to side or up and down or both? If anything we would be using a up and down turret.

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by marandola316

By turret do you mean side to side or up and down or both? If anything we would be using a up and down turret.

A turret implies rotational motion. (What I assume you are referring to as "side to side".) Up and down would be one of two things: Changing the elevation of the shooter OR changing the angle of launch. I also am taking the liberty of assuming you are referring to the latter and changing the angle of launch.

[michael.saxon]

We're going to use a shooter that can change the angle of elevation, but we're not installing a turret because:
A. The mechanical complexity isn't worth the gains
B. We can get the same accuracy from physically turning our robot with gyro feedback as we would get with a pivoting turret.