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Re: Fuel Shooting Census

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
To be fair, that's a ball every 50 milliseconds. Or two balls every 100 milliseconds, or three balls every 150 milliseconds.

But I doubt that anyone can definitively say they are "90% accurate" until they put it on a moving robot that's driving around on a field, not on some test bed.
Even so, claiming 20 balls per second is a pretty tall claim, even if we allow half of them to miss. Machine Guns apparently have rates of fire of 600-1200 RPM - or 10-20 rounds per second. Teams are apparently claiming to be able to deliver at that same rate!
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