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Re: FRC3548 4 wheel Ball Shooter

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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
We're pretty darn lazy, and it seems to take us forever to make just a single moving part for the robot. So we just used one motor, one wheel, one gear, and let the ball get a lot of back spin, which conveniently makes it like to go into the basket when shot at the backboard.
We are the same way. We have an RPM of 3500 on our one axel. The back spin is so great that the ball is no longer a sphere as it travels through the air.
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