Laying it all out there

[Alex.q]

Originally Posted by squirrel

You can probably get by with a single motor/wheel shooter, have the ball go over the wheel, that will give it backspin and make it more likely to land in the basket. One FP motor is sufficient, and you probably want a single stage of gear reduction...see if you can modify the plastic FP gearbox to do this. We've done it by just using the first plastic gear stuck in a box we made ourselves, but without some machining help it would be pretty difficult. See if you can find any kind of machine shop that might help you

We are considering using the plastic FP gearbox (for our collector) because one of our mentors thinks it will be easy to connect to PVC. Did you actually use the gearbox or did you just cannabalize it for the gears, and if you actually used, could you give me some feedback on how to interface into the gearbox's input and output? (or alternatively tell me that if its a bad idea)