Thread: One or Two Wheel Shooter
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Unread 13-01-2006, 20:26
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Re: One or Two Wheel Shooter
A one wheel shooter has a couple advantages:

1. only one motor/drive to control, instead of two wheels that must be synchronized

2. two wheels grab a ball and accelerate it 'instantaniously'. We know from the laws of physics that is impossible, so either the wheels must slow down as it grabs the ball, or the ball must be ripped or skidded to some degree. With a single wheel you can feed the ball into the capture zone so it rolls into it at an accelerating rate. This eliminates the need for instantaniously going from 0 to 12M/s.

3. one wheel puts a repeatable spin on the ball. Depending on how the ball hits the target this can be usefull, so the ball will spin itself into the goal.