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Re: "Pitching Machine" motors

My team was prototyping this using treaded wheels with a CIM attached to each. We maybe were getting two feet out of them. To be fair the set-up was far from optimal and we've still got to try fiddling with the gear ratios, but initial results aren't that impressive.

Edit: No we haven't tried anything other than CIMs, but even the CIMS were unimpressive
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