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Re: 3 robots designs I hope to see this season

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Originally Posted by Thermal View Post
I'm pretty curious as to these "rather large" numbers you're coming up with, because right now you're making it sound like my tape measure was actually measuring in centimeters when I fired a ball 20ft on saturday with some rough cut plywood, poor bushings, a very skewed chain run, and 2 fisher price motors powering a single traction wheel.....

I believe after your first regional, you'll appreciate what BJC and artdutra are saying a little bit more. No offense, but they have a combined 14 years of FIRST experience. If you think 20ft is hard with a poof ball, you should of seen the teams doing it with a 12lb track ball in 2008....
The math from my team's calculations says a 20 foot shot requires a ball to be traveling at 30.008 ft per sec. and up to 60 feet it's 49.004 ft per second.
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