Thread: motor for ball Shooter?
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Re: motor for ball Shooter?
In 2006 we used 2 of the CIM motors directly driven into a 6" Skyway wheel (similar to this year's wheels, but with a much more grippy surface on them.)

They threw the Poof balls very far that year at a nice speed, but your main factor with shooting this year's balls will be how the shooter wheel or other surface will interact with the "not-so-solid" ball.

Should be interesting seeing the shooters that teams come up with this year.
I know I want to see some in action!

I'll try to get a nice up-close pic of our shooter mechanism from 2006, as all of the pics I've located so far of that bot are not close-ups.
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