Prototype Small Wheeled Shooter

[Kevin Sevcik]

I'm working on getting some more quantitative results, but our preliminary results are, well, extremely promising.

Stats on our shooter prototype:
Baseplate is 1/4" lexan, unbraced. Shooter is a little bendy as a result. 2-7/8" orange wheels on 3.5" centers. Wall gap is 10.625". Theoretical top speeds are 4300, 6300, and 14000 at 12V. We're using the bright orange urethane flat belt as our sticky wall material.

For this particular testing setup, we're firing at a 19.5 deg angle, shooter was 41" off the ground and 25' from the goal. With three motors, we were nailing our cardboard just above the top of the 2 pt goal. With two motors it was landing about a 6" below the 2 pt goal.

This was testing an integrated solution with a 5 gallon bucket hopper right next to the firing wheels, so we were dragging the frisbee out from under some others. When we were hand feeding a frisbee in, it was throwing them over the top of our cheesy cardboard 2 pt goal and they were still rising. I'd say it would be about 18" above the 3 pt goal.

[falconmaster]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

I'm working on getting some more quantitative results, but our preliminary results are, well, extremely promising.

Stats on our shooter prototype:
Baseplate is 1/4" lexan, unbraced. Shooter is a little bendy as a result. 2-7/8" orange wheels on 3.5" centers. Wall gap is 10.625". Theoretical top speeds are 4300, 6300, and 14000 at 12V. We're using the bright orange urethane flat belt as our sticky wall material.

For this particular testing setup, we're firing at a 19.5 deg angle, shooter was 41" off the ground and 25' from the goal. With three motors, we were nailing our cardboard just above the top of the 2 pt goal. With two motors it was landing about a 6" below the 2 pt goal.

This was testing an integrated solution with a 5 gallon bucket hopper right next to the firing wheels, so we were dragging the frisbee out from under some others. When we were hand feeding a frisbee in, it was throwing them over the top of our cheesy cardboard 2 pt goal and they were still rising. I'd say it would be about 18" above the 3 pt goal.

Do you have Video? This info is great! We found that with a 10 3/8 gap it shoots farther, but we did not have non slip surface on angle. Will try adding that tomorrow. Here is our two wheel vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=Jc8g9WMoQ2o

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by falconmaster

Do you have Video? This info is great! We found that with a 10 3/8 gap it shoots farther, but we did not have non slip surface on angle. Will try adding that tomorrow. Here is our two wheel vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=Jc8g9WMoQ2o

Would you mind sharing your shooting angle? We're currently set up at 45 degrees, but I'm starting to think that perhaps it's a little overkill.

- Sunny G.

[falconmaster]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

Would you mind sharing your shooting angle? We're currently set up at 45 degrees, but I'm starting to think that perhaps it's a little overkill.

- Sunny G.

We haven't measured any angles yet, we just have the prototype that we just change the angles until we make it. On the actual shooter we will test and then measure the angle so we can put it in code.....If we get a chance today to test the proto then we will measure the angle.