Team 241's Turret Prototype ontop of the Harvester Prototype

[Dantvman27]

What The 2009 Astro-Machine might look like

[NorviewsVeteran]

Right now it doesn't look like much of a queue to the shooter. Not many chances to make it into the trailer.

[Dantvman27]

It's only a model, don't worry

[bixbyrobotics1]

What is that turntable?
We are looking everywhere for ideas and cannot find any...

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by bixbyrobotics1

What is that turntable?
We are looking everywhere for ideas and cannot find any...

Check McMaster


http://www.mcmaster.com/#18635a52/=c093o

[Lesman]

Originally Posted by Dantvman27

It's only a model

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGAYk5VWkTw

[R.C.]

We are doing about the same thing but we have a hopper and feeder system integrated together with a turret on top.

[b williams]

How are you planning on getting the balls up to the top so the turret can shoot them?

[AB755]

The build season seems to be taking a toll on the students. They have all aged quite a bit.

[qwertyuiop[]\]

this is pretty funny because it is the inverse of our robot. we have our collector at the top and our pneumatic turret on the bottom.

[Sean Raia]

Originally Posted by qwertyuiop[]\

this is pretty funny because it is the inverse of our robot. we have our collector at the top and our pneumatic turret on the bottom.

So im guessing your strategy is to catch balls at the top and deliver them to the humans?

Originally Posted by synth3tk

The reason we sort of stood away from a turret design was because of accuracy, but it seems a lot of teams have overcame that challenge, and will probably be some of the better competition this season.

Kudos to those who can master the turrets!

Yea the turrets all look good right now, wait till they get rammed a bit, slide around the field at high speeds and get a broken moon rock or two wedged in the turret. THEN we will see why dumpers prevail over turrets.

[Dantvman27]

Originally Posted by Sean Raia

So im guessing your strategy is to catch balls at the top and deliver them to the humans?



Yea the turrets all look good right now, wait till they get rammed a bit, slide around the field at high speeds and get a broken moon rock or two wedged in the turret. THEN we will see why dumpers prevail over turrets.

Lol, we do not fear broken moon rocks

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Sean Raia

Yea the turrets all look good right now, wait till they get rammed a bit, slide around the field at high speeds and get a broken moon rock or two wedged in the turret. THEN we will see why dumpers prevail over turrets.

I'd like to introduce you to teams 33, 233, 217, 25, and I'm sure there are many more. Specifically, their 2006 robots. 217 had a turret, as did 25. They were the 2006 World Champion and World Finalist, respectively. The others finished lower down, say, division finalist to 217. Are there any questions? I'm sure they could easily handle damaged game objects, too.

[Vikesrock]

Our shooting mechanism is not quite finished yet, but it seems to me that the Orbit balls with 1 or 2 bands broken still provide enough resistance to compression to allow them to be expelled from these types of shooters. They certainly won't go where they are supposed to, but I don't think they will jam up as easily as you seem to think they will.

[Pjohn1959]

Originally Posted by AB755

The build season seems to be taking a toll on the students. They have all aged quite a bit.

That's great. ( I almost fell off my chair)

I think that has happened to a lot of teams...