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Re: Ways to Handle Gears

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Originally Posted by GeeTwo View Post
As I understand this, you are thinking of building some sort of ramp that takes the gear from the loading station, passively rolls it to vertical and disgorges the gear at carpet level.

As the loading station is about two feet off the floor, and the gear is nearly a foot in diameter, you have 18-20" worth of gravitational potential energy. Even if you could do this with no friction at all and the speed at the carpet level is about 5 ft/s (actually a good bit less because energy will go into rotational energy with those gears having most of their mass near the edge). A gear rolling that slowly through a sea of balls and marauding robots? I can't picture that getting far enough to be worthwhile; better to snag the gear at the station and carry it.
Not saying it ends up being worth it, but in terms of physics, you're not starting from zero at the outlet of the loading station. The gear can be and is already moving; in fact, there's no legal limit on the human-input kinetic energy of the gear. (There are of course physical limits by geometry, human capability, and safety standards). It might even be possible to forehand or backhand the gear through the slot like a frisbee. Then you could pull a 469@2010, using an active mechanism that redirects the passive mechanism in between passive uses to send it left or right around the defender.

Practicality aside, this is pretty cool.


Separately, the "active mechanism" clause is grammatically parsed (with the first "or") to apply to "shooting in the air" and "kicking" as well. Conceivably one could employ some kind of gear trampoline that passively bounces the gear instead of actively shooting it.
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