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(...) Not long at all. With the 3'+ slopping double-beam track I had at BF '06, I think it only took less than five seconds for them to clear the end... and that was for a *very* shallow slope. Given the time it takes to lift and lower the bridge, (...) (17 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) I am 100% thinking along the same line. At first I thought of simply stopping the ball lift and immediately raising the bridge, letting balls along the slope drain backward into a hopper, but after watching the bridge raise and lower, I doubt (...) (17 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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On the other hand, why would the bridge need to carry balls at all? Just put the bridge on the section of track that separates the reliable modules from the unreliable modules' loop. But I suppose if the bridge does nothing at all with balls (not (...) (17 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) Ah, OK. No problem then, I was just worrying for a moment that you'd have to further modify the whole thing. (...) Cool. I have an additional 7.73 kg of AA's if we need them :-) (...) Not sure what you mean here. I was just picturing a (...) (17 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) You'd need a hopper to store balls that arrive while the bridge is raised. You could probably rig a gate/door onto it that is open when the bridge is down and closed when the bridge is up. Or the entire hopper could tilt backwards with the (...) (17 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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