Fueling Scoring Challenge

[tig567899]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

If a dumping robot can score 41Kpa he has a total of 81 points (41 from the dumping and 40 from the free gear in the airship) whereas a gearbot needs 6 gears (plus the free one) to beat that score.

Yes, but a dumping robot needs 360 fuel to score 40 kpa. That's a lot considering that the number of total fuel is 540.

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by tig567899

Yes, but a dumping robot needs 360 fuel to score 40 kpa. That's a lot considering that the number of total fuel is 540.

600. You forgot the preloads.
Plus, scored fuel is replenished to the field.

[tig567899]

Originally Posted by Taylor

600. You forgot the preloads.
Plus, scored fuel is replenished to the field.

Right. But still, that's more than half the number of balls - by one robot.

[Foster]

Ok, so help me here, I'm math impaired.

15 balls per second = 900 balls per min.

In a match that is over 2000 balls out of ~600 available at any one time. Into a single goal. I consider 15 a second to be crazy talk, but I've been here a long time, so I can be convinced.

So I'll offer up the STEMRobotics "Why yes we can shoot that" challenge grant. Show me that you can shoot 12 balls a second for eight seconds (96 balls in total) and STEMRobotics will send your team $100. I'd like most to go into the goal, but really to do 12 a second will be great.

1) Line your robot up
2) Load 100 balls in, human help is fine
3) Shoot 96 of them in 8 seconds to the upper boiler goal
4) Profit!



Send me links with "Why yes we can shoot that" as the title.

[BMiller2559]

Not that we plan to try but for clarification for others. Are you limiting this offer to single shooters or will you accept parallel and/or multi-shooter batteries?

[BoilerMentor]

Originally Posted by Foster

Ok, so help me here, I'm math impaired.

15 balls per second = 900 balls per min.

In a match that is over 2000 balls out of ~600 available at any one time. Into a single goal. I consider 15 a second to be crazy talk, but I've been here a long time, so I can be convinced.

So I'll offer up the STEMRobotics "Why yes we can shoot that" challenge grant. Show me that you can shoot 12 balls a second for eight seconds (96 balls in total) and STEMRobotics will send your team $100. I'd like most to go into the goal, but really to do 12 a second will be great.

1) Line your robot up
2) Load 100 balls in, human help is fine
3) Shoot 96 of them in 8 seconds to the upper boiler goal
4) Profit!



Send me links with "Why yes we can shoot that" as the title.

Bet

[GeeTwo]

If you're looking to launch 15 fuel per second, and keep the balls at least an inch apart from each other, the speed at the top of the arc must be at least 7.5 ft/s, if your shooting interval is quite regular. (That is, keep a 6 inch separation between ball centers.) If it's more of a random timing, you would need to go significantly faster. Perhaps if you had two launchers running in parallel...