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Originally Posted by jeremypg399
Check out 1503 Spartonics. They were pretty successful with their slingshot shooter. Technically, they have a quadruple shooter. Probably not what you had in mind for a multi disc shooter, but it should fuel some more varied design discussion.
I was talking to a mentor from 1503 at Championships and he said that one way to make cycle times faster is to reduce the amount of time between disc shots. And the best way to do that is to shoot multiple discs at a time.
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Yeah I remember watching 1503 at championships and I was surprised that anyone actually tried that design, but we want to be able to do a 7 to 9 disk autonomous, and I'm not sure how simple a floor pickup and load for a multi-disk slingshot would be. We also want a below 30 inch robot, and a low slingshot would be quite unreliable, and at that angle, fitting four disks at the same time in the high goal would be difficult, if even possible.
We are pretty much locked in on wanting the side by side shooter at the moment. We have until September to start building, so there are definitely going to be some improvements or changes to the design. We're betting that the robot would have to be quite wide to accommodate the diameter of two shooter wheels, two disks, and the thickness of our metal stock all in a row across the width of the bot.