Hey! I hope the beginning season is good for you all, our team was thinking about having an under-chassis intake and was thinking about using belts or surgical tubing to pick up and transport the note to the shooter like a conveyor belt. I’m thinking of something similar to Cranberry Alarm’s prototype intake with the belts. Just wondering if this is a viable option, Thanks!
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It’s certainly plausible, yes. Youll have to do some prototyping to see how well it works for you and your team’s capabilities
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Have already tested the exact proto you described, which my team has dubbed a “shuttle”. First, the spacing between the axels will matter a lot, compression is good to start at 1" on the note. (This is what Ri3D team Cranberry Alarm found to be most successful). We messed around with the belts in many configurations, eventually we took them off and just used compliant wheels (BaneBots wheels work too). And the performance was exponentially better. Maybe you might find a spacing for axels that works but the grip for surgical tubing was not that impressive.
Thanks! This will save us a lot of prototyping time. We are thinking about compliant wheels but want to use the least amount of materials. Good luck!
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in our prototyping we have found that compliant wheels are much better too.
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We just ran a hi-fidelity prototype with poly belts and it works great. You can see videos of it working here: 2357 System Meltdown | 2024 Open Alliance Build Thread - #9 by coderkevin
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