[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by Chriszuma

That looks nearly identical to the design I am trying to convince my team is a good idea. They're stuck on a stupid hopper.

Tell them they're wrong. It works like magic, even without bearings on the shafts, and with some mathematic relationships that need tweaking. I haven't timed it, but it can move a half-dozen balls up from the bottom to the top faster than a human can feed balls into it. Tomorrow we are adding the prototype shooter to the top and hooking up the prototype scooper to the bottom (sort of). Then, the fabrication team has to replicate it in more primitive materials like aluminum and lexan.