How straight does it need to be? At some point, one passes the point of diminishing returns. A mechanical failure in a mechanism with that much stored energy is not very funny.
Based on seeing the video, I have one piece of advice, make sure your autonomous coding and driver/shooter skills are on point. I bring this up because this robot can only ever accidentally shoot a volunteer once before a head ref is going to have the “if it ever happens again your robot will be considered unsafe” conversation
Very true. What I meant in that statement that you quoted me in was sort of misleading. Yes, we are aware this is a design that has ALOT of power. We are also making sure that this device will be safe, accurate, and stable as well. We have never had this device launch in an unsafe way, and will continue to make sure it doesn’t.
Thank you for your concerns though, as this is a design with many posibilities for malfunctions.
Can I borrow that? My school is having a dodge ball tournament tomorrow and my friend has dibs on our shooter.
We have a similar concept… but yours sounds like war machine when it shoots :eek:
We do, using rollers, it will suck the ball into the front of the shooter where the ball is housed. This rollers will actually move to get out of the way of the shooter whenever we don’t need them anymore. So the intake will be attached to the arm that holds our shooter.
Don’t forget this!