Farthest Shot

[lemiant]

Hey guys,

Today we were prototyping a shooter, and it turned out to be a little more powerful than expected . At ~80 feet I'm fairly sure this is the farthest anyone has ever launched this year's game piece:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6L1LLRHEFM

The contraption uses two kit wheels powered by a CIM geared UP at a ratio of 22:15. This set up is mirrored on the top and bottom (using a total of 4 wheels and 2 CIMs). The shooter takes ~1.5s to recover between balls. Back of napkin math suggests that the maximum surface velocity of the wheels is 200ft/s.

Hope you enjoyed that,

EDIT: When I say kit wheels, I mean 2011 kit.

- Alex