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Re: Best approach for feeding frisbee to shooter mechanism?

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Originally Posted by jnaranjo View Post
We are a rookie team.
We have a linear shooter with a vertical magazine behind it. We are mounting a rod to a windshield wiper motor (DC motor), and controlling it with a Talon. This will hit the bottom frisbee in the magazine out to the shooter.
I mentioned this in the other thread on this topic, but there are no FRC-legal windshield wiper motors (R32). Unless you've got the window motors confused with windshield wiper motors somehow, I think you may need to look at your motion system here.
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