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Re: Team 1458 Ball Collection Final Prototype

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Originally Posted by Kevin342 View Post
Good job!

How are you going to feed the balls into your launcher only when you want to launch? This is an interesting problem because the lower balls will try to push the top ball in.
That top wheel is our "trigger" system the ball is stopped there and then when we wish to fire the motor turns allowing the ball to enter the shooter and then it fires.
As for the motor to be overkill while this maybe true this year we are trying to cut down on wait and so far we are only using 3 cim motors on the robot so far.
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