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Re: pic: 1625's shooter ready to fire

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Originally Posted by AdamHeard View Post
What is that giant heatsink on?
the FP motor that steers the wheels, it actually helps for when the bots running for more than 2 minutes.

Leav, look at the next picture of our shooter and you'll get a better idea how it works, its kinda tough to do with words.

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Originally Posted by Karthik View Post
Congratulations to the gang at 1625 on coming up with such a simple and elegant solution. Pretty much everyone from 1114 had the same reaction when we checked out your shooting mechanism in Chicago, "That's so cool!".
We wanted to accomplish a punching mechanism without having any other actuation, as we've never used pneumatics once in our 4 years and another motor is more weight.
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1625->3928->148->1296->971 oh dear

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