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Re: pic: 2949 PWNAGE: 2012 Robot

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Originally Posted by =Martin=Taylor= View Post
Wow!

That looks really well designed! The quality of your CAD is phenomenal.

What was the motivation behind using belts instead of wheels to shoot the balls? My old team tried something similar for reasons that IMO did not make sense. The end result was a horribly inefficient system that (despite using two CIMs) could only fire a miserable 15'. It looks like your system is far better designed and probably vastly more efficient but still, 4 motors for the shooter is a lot.
Same. My team is using belts too, which have been a really bad decision. I keep trying to get us to switch to a hooded shooter, but no. The claim on my team is is improves accuracy, the theory being that the belts are essentially a very consistent feeder. Apparently, tests revealed that belts were more accurate. Whatever. It doesn't look like most teams are shooting farther than the key anyway...
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