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Best way to launch fuel?
what do y'all think is the best way to launch the balls?
Mono flywheel? Double flywheels? Catapults? Flip Shooter? Anything else? Thanks!! |
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Yes...
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All of the above.
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Consistently.
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Flip shooter?
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Glad it was specific enough to say fuel.
When picking a launching system don't neglect to look at the scoring system, because it is possible to design a shooter that will score you less then the low boiler. Since this isn't ancient china teams generally don't use a chu-ko-nu , instead people opt for flywheels because you can drop a payload into a flywheel and its gone. I did once see a triple flywheel design mounted on a claw that actuated and man that thing looked like it was designed to rip faces off... |
Re: Best way to launch fuel?
which is the most consistent and easiest to package though?
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Easiest to package, I'd guess would be a single wheel shooter. It's just a motor, a wheel, and something to guide the path of the fuel on the other side.
Is your team trying to decide which to do? This sounds like a great prototyping exercise. Get some plywood and 2x4's, a couple of wheels, a few motors (or power drills), and have at it. |
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we have a very nice single wheeled shooter with a hood, and we are trying to decide how to adjust the angle, either by bending/compressing the angle of the hood or keeping the hood steady and rotating the entire thing
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No thoughts on a pneumatic launcher? :yikes:
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There is no "best", there's only the best that your team can demonstrably accomplish before committing to a final design. Prototype!
Top tier teams will make several different designs work at the highest levels of play; that doesn't mean they are all equally viable or good for your team. "You don't have to prototype everything, just the things you want to work." |
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Those are always gated by the fact you need air tanks and those take up space. That's not to say they don't work. |
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I would say something that can just keep launching the balls if it can just be fed
1 robot can sit and shoot while one goes and feeds it balls along with the other robot going and getting the gears |
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