[FTC]: Help With Linear Lift?

[robot12837]

Hello. I am currently a member of a rookie FTC team that recently finished brainstorming ideas for this year's game. We found a solution that we all liked in the form of some type of linear lift that would collect the balls with a conveyor and dispense them with the linear lift. Unfortunately, our mentor doesn't have an engineering background and as we are a brand new team none of us really have a good idea on how to build this design. If anyone has some tips on how to build a reliable linear lift it would be very much appreciated. A few of us know how to use Autodesk Inventor so if you're happen to have any CAD models we could look at that would be extremely helpful. We definitely wouldn't want to steal any designs, we just wanted to get an idea on how to execute our design and go from there. Thanks!

Steve