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    Can a Claw Design Hold a Spinning Ball Against Centripetal Force?

    Well it does have to have a hand to receive the ball from another hand, and we went over the abrupt release but we fear damaging our robot, which is a high probability with such speeds. The ball is actually 11.2 ounces and the rest of the arm is a little more than 2 pounds if that helps. And...
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    Can a Claw Design Hold a Spinning Ball Against Centripetal Force?

    Hi guys and gals, I have a robotics related engineering problem I need help with. So, for our robot we are building, it has a centripetal arm that launches a foam basketball. The arm is 2 foot in diameter rotating from the center with 3 pounds on each side (including projectile and...
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    Robot vision distance sensing & launch tube design

    Sensors? Here is the known facts: Mounted around 5 foot off of the floor. "see" objects anywhere from 3 feet to 54 feet away that are anywhere from 2 feet to 8 feet tall. Will then take a distance feedback and use that information to calculate a needed arch and force to make a basket...
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    Robot vision distance sensing & launch tube design

    So, For FIRST FRC robotics, We have made 3 different objectives to research, and I decides to start with the projectile. We need to launch an 8" diameter foam basketball into a goal that's 18" diameter. We can be anywhere from 3feet to 54 feet away. We had an idea of using the classic...
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    Calculating Output of Solar Cells in KWH

    I'm relatively new to physics, (17 going to college physics next year), but I believe you have everything you need to understand the output in Kilowatts per hour. Kilowatts= (Amperes * Volts)/1000 Kw= (.005263 * 18)/1000 Kw= .000094734 ^here above i converted the milli amperes into...
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