Creating the perfect robot

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Originally Posted by chmorroni

Our shooter was a 180 degree circular shooter with an 8" pneumatic wheel direct mounted to a CIM. It takes at least .5-1 seconds to speed back up after pushing a Frisbee through it. I think one way to avoid that might be to decrease the contact time of the Frisbee with the wheel.

I don't think that how much energy you need to push the frisbee through really matters. You can almost always just add more power to get a faster recovery time. We had a similar setup to yours: an 8" Colson on a ~120 degree path. We started out with a CIM but then went to dual fisher prices to get it back up to speed faster.

I think it would be possible to get the throughput of this sort of shooter up above what a single human player can load without too much extra trouble. I think the ultimate FCS would need to take disks from multiple human-loading slots more than it would need a second shooter.