Tonight Tucker and I talked about some ideas over google talk, here they are:
Tucker: i mean i had a few ideas, but not during the meeting
should i go ahead and post them anyway?
Ian: go ahead and put them up if you want
it is our team's notebook
it should include ideas
Tucker: what about for a scoring mechanism kind of like a cross between a combine harvester and a garbage or a dump truck?
Ian: i had tought of a dumptruck type thing
Ian: dont see anyway we could implement a combineharvester thing though
Tucker: we could work together on it this weekend or next week
Ian: of course any ideas of how to get pucks from the floor into the bin would be much apprecieated
assume you have a max of 2 motors and 2 servos
Tucker: yeah, we won't need much power to lift the pucks, just enough to get them into the hopper-thing.
Tucker: but i want to work on this hopper thing at some point
Ian: awesome, the idea i had has it cantalever out about a foot
and up a bit
Ian: think similar to a paralellagram
Tucker: it would be simpler just to hinge it though
Ian: we could shape the bucket like a paint roller thing
we couldnt get it into the triangle
Ian: this would also tip it in the process, (hopefully)
Ian: the goal is a full hopper in the triangle
Tucker: we could try both
Ian: yes, we could have a servo on the end that tips it
if necessary
Tucker: are you sure a servo could support that much weight?
you have 4 that move a frame the hopper is in
Ian: and one to lift the back end
Tucker: that one is going to be under a lot of stress
Ian: its only lifting 1/16" alluminum or polycarbinate + some 2oz pucks
Tucker: well yeah but taken into account the size of the tray
Ian: think of it like a lever
the further from the hinge point you are the easier it is to move
Tucker: if we do that it'd be a 3rd class lever
we may not have enough effort from 1 servo to move that much of a load
Ian: we do have 2 motors left if necesarry
well we'll see when we work on it
Ian: yeah we will have some foam board or cardboard or something to use when working on ideas for the manipulator
Ian: regardless we will add a plow to the back incase
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