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Originally Posted by Tony.Wu
A motor will take time to spin up. While pneumatics will be alot faster. However you must take the recharge rate of pneumatics into consideration.
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That all depends on how you use it. Yes, if you're trying to use a motor to spin a kicker directly, you'll have to deal with that. However, if you use the motor to wind up the kicker and hold it in place... the release of that stored energy can be almost instantaneous - even faster than pneumatics, as you have to deal with flow rates and volumes with those. Even better, there are some pretty nice ways to translate the rotational motion of a motor into a linear motion, which can allow you to place the force from the motor away from the center of rotation of your kicker - the additional leverage means you need less torque to push it out, potentially giving you greater speed.
As squirrel said, plenty of videos are out there of teams prototyping. Thus far, i've seen teams be successful with pneumatics, springs, and surgical tubing (rubber tubing that can stretch and hold a lot of energy).
As for what our team is doing... We've been prototyping everything
