True
Also, you can’t touch 2 sides of the fence, and I think SG8 prevents climbing it.
Depending on the material of the fence, I don’t believe the massive design you described would be capable of it anyways.
A flywheel may work!!
Yea,no
Just put a plate under the objects and launch the plate.
To pick the stars up, use side rollers with long standoffs to pull it in.
‘Cough’,‘Cough’
I was thinking a claw arm as an intake and a puncher as an outtake
the only issue with a puncher is inconsistent hitting spots and angle so unless you had something line it up the same everytime it would change each shot.
I mean unlike last year’s game we don’t have to worry about shooting in one specific region, but rather a larger area. We can line the puncher up at the gate but it can change every time because we have the whole 12 feet to shoot at…
What if the intake were those 6" leg wheels? could that be possible???
how destructive would a punch moving 1.5lbs be
I have a couple thoughts on this game. I really like the re-introduction of large scoring objects, because that adds a really cool element of design. My concerns are how to get an orange cube into the far zone, because, if they are as heavy as they look, it will need a crazy amount of motor power to launch them that far. As for the intake, I would consider a forklift kind of mechanism that can pick up both stars and cubes. I would use a swerve chassis with a 3:1 gear ratio and 2 motors per side. I am not sure on a hanging mechanism yet.
As far as the orange cubes go, I went down and picked one up, it’s super light
In that case, I am thinking a catapult launcher mounted on a scissor lift. The scissor lift would be to get the stars off the fence. But with the scissor lift, I don’t know how I would fit in a hanging mechanism.
In that case, I am thinking a catapult launcher mounted on a scissor lift. The scissor lift would be to get the stars off the fence. But with the scissor lift, I don’t know how I would fit in a hanging mechanism.
I feel like the best strategy is a fast but short-range catapult, even if you cant hit the stars into the far-zone, if you can keep all the stars out of your side constantly it doesnt even matter since you win
Robot starting as just a normal chassis (with scoring methods, of course, but the robot just looks like a box). As soon as auto starts, deploy a platform, drive to the fence and lift the platform (using linears) to push starts onto the other side for auton.
Drive control; There is an arm (maybe with a claw) that reaches onto the platform (using the platform as in intake for stars), picks up the stars and drops them onto the other side. Cubes are also picked up by this platform, and shot by a linear puncher. Use the arm to high hang at the end
Me either. I have an idea about it but i think the walls are going to be strong this year
Just so people have an idea, based on weight, a star is about the weight of 5-6 nbn balls, and the cube is about the weight of 14-16 nbn balls.