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Unread 25-02-2006, 13:12
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Re: pic: TEAM 1447 "GARY THE SNAIL"

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Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris
It looks amazing, but I don't see the practical point of the HUGE wheel that takes up like your whole robot. There must be simpler and smaller solutions.
It looks like an off-the-shelf BMX or motorcycle wheel. Anytime you can use an existing OTS component you save a huge amount of engineering resources.

The way the balls are queued it looks like it can fire them in a very rapid succession - like 10 balls in < 3 S?