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Originally Posted by Michael Long
What you see, are Fp motors running through a 5:1 banebots reduction. The blue wheels and Yellow mounts were made on our FDM machine (Rapid Prototype) which let us customize the wheel geometry to get max contact with the ball. The concave wheels act as self centering.
This is now mounted to a suspended "turret" and linked by software to the camera. Works great. I'll post a pic of them mounted this weekend.
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Gotta love those FDM machines. Quite a bit of our robot was made on the FDM machine this year. You can make some great parts in em.
How well do the FP mototrs work? Aren't you worried about the motors going bad? But i do like that it is simple, looks heavy though. Well everything looks heavy to me because we are 12 lbs over right now...