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Unread 27-01-2013, 01:09
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Re: Four in the air at one time

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Originally Posted by ctccromer View Post
Yep! We discovered that today too and after brutally mutilating it to exactly fit our robot, it's now... well, part of our robot.
We were able to shoot 4 frisbees in about the same speed, maybe SLIGHTLY slower by turning two cim motors with pneumatic wheels attached and using a window motor with L-bracket attached to push frisbees into our two wheels. On the controller, x moves the window motor forward and y moves it backwards, so quickly spamming xyxyxyxy means we shoot 4 frisbees extremely fast, and they ALL hit EXACTLY the same spot, not counting mistakes caused by human error (still prototyping)
Excellent. I look forward to the no doubt soon-to-be-posted video.

Three weeks in and wishing we were further ahead, but then that's always the case at this point.