That Shooter is definitely sweet and well built. I don’t think you’ll have any mechanical issues with hitting a target from more than 25 feet away, but I think you’ll have a practical problem.
In Lunacy thus far, we’ve seen that most scoring action from shooters and dumpers a like has been at short range. I think you’ll notice that too and play a much closer shooting game than you think. I doubt you’ll have any issues shooting at the sub-5ft range, if anything that turret will give you a substantial advantage. But then again, it’ll be nice when you guys can bust out with a match winning Hail Mary Shot or two.
So, don’t let the CD discussion get you down. I think you’ll do fine out there.
Has anyone tried doing this at a week 1 regional? I have heard that the Driver Station will not have enough speed to process the videoat a helpful rate. Now I know that the DS can process it fine, however the competition ports will not allow for enough speed.
After competing in the NJ regional, i can say that: part of the inspection is asking you if you have setup to do this, as it is completely illegal. i think the reasoning was that FIRST was worried that it would take up too much bandwidth, and prevent driver communication with the robots.
That being said, part of our control system was a Q1 tablet pc, which is used to display sensor and motor readings, to aid us in driving. The inspector was sure to ask that we did not try to send live video, only values.
It is truly a small world by the way. I was going to Salem Middle school in Apex and would have gone to Apex High before i moved up north to Illinois. I am glad to see that i might have still been on a FRC team if i had not moved.
Very cool. We have a student from Apex high on the team. He is the valedictorian there, and he found out about the team because he used to go to our school. NC doesn’t have too many teams yet but we are working on it.
That’s simply not true. It’s not on the inspection checklist, and the Q&A has confirmed that it is legal, though potentially not practical. It’s always a good idea to be armed with the rules in case an inspector or referee tries to tell you something different.
wow…very cool and inventive design!
I really like the wheels that you used on your shooter, very clever. Hope you all do well wherever you compete!
Best of luck
Yup. The Force Team (1073) had a laptop set up next to their operator’s controls that was definitely playing video live from the camera. I don’t know anything about the Axis camera, but the video was in odd colors, but you could certainly make out the shapes of the goals and robots. It wasn’t a fantastic frame rate, but it was definitely updating a couple of times a second.
Thanks for the info. We could work on that. We have an extra controller, camera, and the other needed junk. We could try having direct video. Thanks for all the input. We are going to VCU by the way.
A design like this would be great for delivering 4 empty cells in about 30 seconds:yikes: You would have to look out for dumpers while you do it, but that would be a sweet addition to an alliance. Maybe you guys can make a trip to SC next year, or better yet, have a NC regional;)
Great idea. You have gotten me thinking. We can have our human player directly put balls into our shooter. So we can face our corner, aim the turret, crank it up a little and drop the empty cells in 1 after another and they will all be taken care of. It wouldn’t even be 30 seconds. I think it could take us about 7-10 seconds after practicing once or twice. We would have to be defended by a team so that we aren’t dumped upon, but that could give us loads of points. Thanks for mentioning that, I’m going to talk to the team about it tomorrow.
Careful now, The players in the outpost are not aloud to stick any part of thier body past the plan of the “shield”. Although still, this could work very well :).