Prototype Small Wheeled Shooter

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by sdcantrell56

We aren't running tiny wheels but smaller than most, and it was my engineering intuition that says having the frisbee touching both wheels has to be detrimental to overall performance as that pretty much necessitates one wheel slipping. Ours is designed so this isn't possible and the shooter does seem to perform quite well with minimal wear on the green banebots wheels.

Additionally, roughtop as a backstop is probably not the best material. Roughtop actually has pretty poor friction on plastics

This seems like it would be true. The initial prototype design came about for the design requirement of being able to mount our shooter/collector on a lift so it had to be insanely small and light. I'm glad other teams have found a use for it but our specs were never meant to be taken as optimal for all situations. In fact we only ever plan to shoot from behind the pyramid as our max distance, most of our shots should only travel about 4 feet total before entering the goal.