In reality your intake is doing no work at all when your intake is spinning. Since w=fd and f=ma that means that a=o which means w=0*md aka 0. The only time your intake actually does work is after it intakes a cube and has to reaccelerate. Aka when a is NOT equal to zero. The half wall doesn’t do anything to affect work. If you really want to decrease work, you have to decrease work on your bucket
I appreciate your comment, and it's something I've been eager to see for a while. If we can engage in brainstorming sessions with all the kids about principles like physics and math, everything will start to make more sense. Robotics is certainly about more than just competitions.
your intake is actually doing 0 work because your force is equal to zero. this is because f=mass x acceleration and your acceleration here is 0 because your intake is spinning at a (mostly) constant speed.
Wait what I just did the math for my robot and something isn’t right. If W=F*D and force is F=Mass*Acceleration, then that means that whenever the intake remains at a constant speed the force is 0 and 0 times the distance will always be 0. So your intake is doing 0 work? So then why does that half wall improve your intake? So if the key is keeping your intake at a constant speed, then maybe I should experiment with flywheel weights so it’s harder for the intake to loose its inertia?
yooo, we also had a vertical band wall in the early stages of the season, im assuming that you decided that wasnt a good design because of the bands’ vertical strain on the structure. we had this exact issue and just stuck with a horizontal wall instead. but all season basically we had what u called a half wall in the video but with rubber bands instead of beams like u had in the video. i could go more in depth but his comment is already long enough. maybe a phone # to text or discord if u have one?
edit: oh i realize your design now, ingenious in my opinion! one level gets full and now theres no space for more blocks. so they have no choice but to go up! awsome! (i didnt have what u had all season at all, mb)
In this video, we were trying 4:1 on 2-motor intake, actually, we spent 2 weeks exploring 4:1 2m intake, tried all the wall combinations that we could think of, and our conclusion is, don't use it, at least on our robot. On a good run, we saw 20s clear supply zone, on a bad run, it will be 40s. We heard 4:1 2m intake works amazingly on some team's robot, you can find them on RU-vid, but we could not handle it.
