Upon arriving at today's robotics meeting, we discovered that the intake motor is mysteriously working again. It also continues to manifest the strange symptom of reversing directions after a few seconds of being powered on. The builders started by putting balls through the intake, but all the big balls got jammed.
While they pondered that issue, I started working on the ramp again. This time, I decided to put it together in a non-escomatage, so I scrounged up some C brackets and long screws and started attaching the square piece to the long side. It's really hard to wrangle a wrench, the nuts, and the ramp without it all falling apart, and I am missing a screw, so it's kind of difficult.
The engineer added more treads to the conveyor belt (making it longer), remounted it at a steeper angle, and changed the plastic flaps out for metal. It can now take in balls very well, but we now have to find a way to make them roll down into the ball hopper.
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