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Slight resurrection, but I'm curious - has your team moved forward with this project?
We are also looking at wheeled t-shirt launcher designs as an offseason project (and practice for the upcoming American Football game), and there simply aren't many to be found. |
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Here's a brief tour of the shooter. https://youtu.be/SnaXhoxGsy0?t=8m1s What information do you need? David |
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2791 briefly built a prototype of a wheeled T-shirt shooter in late 2014, and I think they found that marshmallow wheels ("Sure-Grip Drive Rollers" on McMaster, Buna-N) were the best wheels for shooting T-shirts. The compliance helps deal with small variances in shirt packing density or size, and it imparts more energy into the shirts. I would give those a try.
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I need to get pictures from my teammates but 5811 built a t-shirt shooter prototype and were able to get roughly 38 yards out of it. We used 2 6" andymark wheels with 2 timing belts to feed into it
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We built the a test version of a wheeled shooter this summer with Andymark 8" wheels, and VEX clamping gearboxes. See here: https://goo.gl/photos/hjbNw8vYjDLF34nG9. After a bit of iteration (added a second stage, and reduced compression to only about 1") we got it shooting about 75 ft. There's still a bit of work to do before we can mount it on a robot (and I think we can tweak it to shoot further) but we might use the test version as-is as a "T-shirt mortar" into the stands at this fall's STEMley Cup
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For something like this, it would probably be a lot better and cheaper to buy some Brushless outrunners and brushless ESC's rather than try to keep to FRC legal parts only. Your spinning a flywheel in one direction at highspeed so it's basically perfect to be made Brushless.
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Edit: I didn't see they were feeding the CIM through a VP, which I honestly think they could skip if they wanted and just cantilever the wheels off CIM shafts with hex adapters. Kind of sketchy but it would be fine for an offseason robot. |
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DC motors can be abused and, given how students tend to do things, that's a good thing. I'd stick with maybe some 550 motors and appropriate VP gearboxes if required. |
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https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/s...d.php?t=149446 Video should be up soon, since we'll be at Maker Faire NY this weekend. |
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Took a bit but here is ours, you cannot see where the t-shirt lands but it is about 115 feet away. The front two wheels are each powered by a CIM and the belts in the back are each powered by a Mini CIM. We couldn't keep testing because we lost the key to one of the mini-CIMs and don't have any extras
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One of several videos from Maker Faire. We estimate about 70ft in the air. The compression of the shirt is very important (our best shots were made with very tightly rolled shirts).
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