Thread: pic: 4587 CAD (With a Shooter Mech.)
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Re: pic: 4587 CAD (With a Shooter Mech.)
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Originally Posted by lucas.alvarez96 View Post
Is anybody else doing this? Some members of our team really liked it, but we've seen many prototypes with pneumatic cylinders that hit the ball which fail miserably. Would a hammer/arm work well with this idea?

Thanks in advance
At the moment the shooter is not using pneumatics at all. That plunger that you see is going to be powered by really thick surgical tubing. Out prototype of it as well as many other teams work really well. A piston in place of the surgical tube to power the shooter has not worked well for anybody as far as I know. The piston just does not have enough acceleration combined with force behind it to push the ball out and into the high goal very well.
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