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Re: Feeding into shooter

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Originally Posted by gyroscopeRaptor View Post
We took a minibot gear and drilled out a hole offset from the center. Then we attached the pg71 gearmotor to it in that hole and it pushes frisbees in quickly and consistently, no pneumatics necessary.
Team 67 did something similar to this. They attached paddles on a chain and powered it to push the frisbees into the shooter at a constant interval.

As for 308 we used a pneumatic cylinder.
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