Devlog 1 -

-changed the backplate on shooter
- fixed clipping
- created a very rudimentary feeding path, needs a LOT more work

i wasted a lot of time on the feeding path, changing belt positions ironing out belt lengths and pitch, I originally was using 5 mm but I couldn’t get the right lengths so I switched to 3mm. I also didn’t now how I was going to mount it so I spent a while figuring that out.

I’m using a belt on the top and bottom of the balls to funnel them into an array of compliant wheels that sends it up into the shooter

Yesterday I quickly knocked out the chassis and timelapsed me planning out the superstructure on paper. Today I designed the turret and I modified the shooter such that it can be mounted to the turret, this took longer than anticipated but oh well. my Laptop is so slow that Onshape crashed the whole computer like 3 times while making the turret, I suppose I have to keep my documents small. I’ve decided on a 30’’ by 25” chassis for this robot. This is to allow an intake about as wide as 5 balls, as well I did a rough estimate of my ball capacity based on rough numbers and it should be able to hold a maximum of about 80 balls. The drivetrain consists of SDS MK5Is powered by 8 Neo Vortexes.

over the past few days I worked on my launcher for this years game piece, fuel (little yellow balls). I spent about an hour designing a carriage style hood so “it would be packaged better” but then realized it would add about 2 inches to the back and be heavier, so I reworked how the hood moves up and down by moving the rack onto the dynamic portion and the pinion onto the static part. the hood has an adjustable angle of about 25 degrees up to 60 degrees so weather we’re passing from the other alliance zone or butted against the hub we should be able to shoot. combined the 2 neo vortexes powering the flywheel achieve about 13,000 RPM so it can really lob balls.