FRC Team 1325 2020 Competition Robot

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I personally designed the Shooter/turret, intake and feeder subsystems

Intake:
The intake subsystem is one of the more important subsystems, the design and function affect the performance and effectiveness of the feeder and shooter alike. With this in mind, special care was taken to ensure the success of the intake. Currently, the intake consists of box tube construction, a single vectoring roller and pivots off of a custom gearbox. The box tube construction like most of our robots allows for easy modification later on. The motor pivot makes use of the versatility of the versa planetary gearboxes and combines it with a custom external reduction to produce a pivot that is not only fast but strong, reliable and not subject to losing position

Feeder:
The feeder is used to store the collected power cells in the robot. The feeder can hold 5 power cells in the robot at a time. The main goal of the feeder is to transport power cells from the intake to the shooter. The feeder utilizes belts and pulleys to move the balls through the system.

Shooter:
Our goal for this shooter was to shoot reliably from 20+ ft, allowing us to shoot undefended with an unblockable shot due to the shooter's height. The flywheel is a 4” aluminum wheel capable of running up to ~11,000 rpm on a 2:1 reduction powered by two NEO motors. Whereas the hood assembly consists of a stack of vertical Lexan pieces to make the hood contour, within this stack the central pieces are mounted on sliders such that when powered with pistons they extend, altering the launch angle of the ball.