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Re: Team 254 Presents: Dropshot Technical Binder 2016

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What other wheels did you guys try out for the flywheel?

Do you guys use laser cut wood for majority of your prototypes? I assume that this makes prototyping easier and more accurate.

When is your code going to be released?

Thanks for this incredible resource.
We bagged and tagged our robot with 2 4" Colson wheels acting as our shooter. At CVR, we used 4 4" Colson wheels. At SVR and Champs, we used 2 4" Fairlane wheels with safety wire wrapped around it to stop it from expanding a significant amount past 5000 rpm.

Yes we did use a laser cutter for prototyping with wood and it greatly aided our prototyping process as we were able to quickly CAD and test different variables for our flywheel shooter (pg 13) such as hood angle, pulley ratios, ball traction, and moment of inertia. In addition we did use the laser cutter to test out different intakes and also to cut the hubs for our mechanum wheels.

As for the code, our programming team is performing a code clean and is planning to release it soon.
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