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Originally Posted by ttldomination
Moving onto another part of the turret, any ideas on how to power/motorize the lazy susans? All I've heard is make your own custom large sprocket. Seeing as how that really isn't an option for my team, any team have any household solutions for this?
- Sunny G.
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You can do it on the cheap very easily. Like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfFGw...C65188EFF4A22D
We used a globe motor and a large gear from the kit. For the large gear, we cut out a circle, bolted it to a lazy susan, and then stapled belting around the outside.
...it was absolutely, disastrously the wrong solution for Lunacy, but I think it could work quite well for Rebound Rumble.
Oh, and with lazy susan, belt, and gear in the kit, the net cost was somewhere around $4 for the plywood.
It's worth noting as well that the shooter was very wide because orbit balls were so frustratingly irregular -- methinks you could get away with a pitching machine-style pair of wheels with these balls. (Prototyping is yet to come for us on that score!)