Throw or Drop?

[PAR_WIG1350]

Originally Posted by peyton122995

Well you are allowed to cross the plane with one appendage on the robot. You are allowed to cross 14" (inches) like you stated. And you can go a max of like 9 feet high if you were able to tilt whatever you were dropping the balls with, well at an angle and about 2 feet higher the velocity of the balls would take it the extra inches. You could even put a motor at the edge with a roller on each side to give it power at very close range.

Hope this helped. (My First Post)

84 inches is seven feet, not nine.

Also, Welcome to CD.

[Jimmyk]

We're going with shooting, after all as long as you can get a fairly constant exit velocity for the ball, and you know how far from the hoop your robot is it's pretty simple physics to calculate the angle needed to get the ball in the hoop.

[davidthefat]

Just saying, trying to drop the balls onto the baskets also might hinder other bots trying to shoot or do the same thing. That would be a great limiting factor in scoring.

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by Jimmyk

We're going with shooting, after all as long as you can get a fairly constant exit velocity for the ball, and you know how far from the hoop your robot is it's pretty simple physics to calculate the angle needed to get the ball in the hoop.

If we were in a vaccuum!

[Peyton Yeung]

Originally Posted by eedoga

Our team has looked at both, and may end up with both. If the basket is 14 inches long then it ends up something like 3 -4 inches from the edge of the rim. I poured basketballs into a trash can from this distance with ease. We are trying to figure out a way to use a dumping basket as a hopper for a shooter so we can do both.

You might gain inspiration from 47's 2000 bot. It collects balls in a open ended box then lifted it up and spat it out

[Mr. Pockets]

Originally Posted by Simulation

can't you overcome a quarter inch with spin? what about the diameter of the ball?

Well yes, but then you'd sorta be shooting it, not dropping/dunking it (unless we're talking about the 1 point basket. The two point baskets are both at 61", so there really wasn't a ton of vertical space to drop from anyway). Additionally, my calculations were incorrect (see next quoted post), and 3.5 inches is a bit harder to cover with spin alone (and at the point where it is covered you're not even close to dunking anymore).

Originally Posted by Austin2046

i believe you also forgot the width of your bumpers between your frame and the fender. so we add another 3.25 inches or so...

0.25'' + 3.25'' = 3.5''

Oops, you're right. Good call. Same conclusion regardless though.

[come-at-me-bro]

Our team decided that we should go for shooting.

[SimulationX]

I think that any team that can quickly and efficiently score points will be very effective, and since time spent moving accross the field is time wasted, a shooting mechanism should be better.

plus, if one robot is REALLY good at shooting balls, the other two could just feed him the balls from the other side of the court