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Re: pic: Wheeled shirt launcher

Slight resurrection, but I'm curious - has your team moved forward with this project?
We are also looking at wheeled t-shirt launcher designs as an offseason project (and practice for the upcoming American Football game), and there simply aren't many to be found.
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Re: pic: Wheeled shirt launcher

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Slight resurrection, but I'm curious - has your team moved forward with this project?
We are also looking at wheeled t-shirt launcher designs as an offseason project (and practice for the upcoming American Football game), and there simply aren't many to be found.
We built one last year similar to the OP's design with a few key differences. We used a cylinder to push the shirts into the wheels. We also had a pvc pipe on the shooter to keep the shirts straight. There are slots in the side of the pipe for the shooter wheels.

Here's a brief tour of the shooter.
https://youtu.be/SnaXhoxGsy0?t=8m1s

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Re: pic: Wheeled shirt launcher

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What information do you need?
At this point, we are most interested in your launcher wheel RPM and the optimal compression on the shirts. I think we can puzzle through the rest.
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Re: pic: Wheeled shirt launcher

2791 briefly built a prototype of a wheeled T-shirt shooter in late 2014, and I think they found that marshmallow wheels ("Sure-Grip Drive Rollers" on McMaster, Buna-N) were the best wheels for shooting T-shirts. The compliance helps deal with small variances in shirt packing density or size, and it imparts more energy into the shirts. I would give those a try.
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I need to get pictures from my teammates but 5811 built a t-shirt shooter prototype and were able to get roughly 38 yards out of it. We used 2 6" andymark wheels with 2 timing belts to feed into it

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Re: pic: Wheeled shirt launcher

We built the a test version of a wheeled shooter this summer with Andymark 8" wheels, and VEX clamping gearboxes. See here: https://goo.gl/photos/hjbNw8vYjDLF34nG9. After a bit of iteration (added a second stage, and reduced compression to only about 1") we got it shooting about 75 ft. There's still a bit of work to do before we can mount it on a robot (and I think we can tweak it to shoot further) but we might use the test version as-is as a "T-shirt mortar" into the stands at this fall's STEMley Cup

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Re: pic: Wheeled shirt launcher

For something like this, it would probably be a lot better and cheaper to buy some Brushless outrunners and brushless ESC's rather than try to keep to FRC legal parts only. Your spinning a flywheel in one direction at highspeed so it's basically perfect to be made Brushless.
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Re: pic: Wheeled shirt launcher

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For something like this, it would probably be a lot better and cheaper to buy some Brushless outrunners and brushless ESC's rather than try to keep to FRC legal parts only. Your spinning a flywheel in one direction at highspeed so it's basically perfect to be made Brushless.
It really wouldn't, though. Even assuming they don't reuse old parts, a CIM is $27 and a Spark is like $45, which together is comparable to or cheaper than a 12V 300W brushless motor. You can get non-reversible PWM speed controllers for brushed motors for less than the cost of common FRC reversible controllers.

Edit: I didn't see they were feeding the CIM through a VP, which I honestly think they could skip if they wanted and just cantilever the wheels off CIM shafts with hex adapters. Kind of sketchy but it would be fine for an offseason robot.
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I'm gonna ignore the cost argument. But I'd have concerns if your shooter wheels had any significant mass. There'd likely be some reconfiguring of the ESC required to get it working without starting a small fire.

DC motors can be abused and, given how students tend to do things, that's a good thing. I'd stick with maybe some 550 motors and appropriate VP gearboxes if required.
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Slight resurrection, but I'm curious - has your team moved forward with this project?
We are also looking at wheeled t-shirt launcher designs as an offseason project (and practice for the upcoming American Football game), and there simply aren't many to be found.
We (the two of us, no longer our team ) have achieved 60-70ft running 6" Colsons directly off MiniCIMs. Compression is a huge factor. Refer to this thread for more information:
https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/s...d.php?t=149446

Video should be up soon, since we'll be at Maker Faire NY this weekend.
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since we'll be at Maker Faire NY this weekend.
See you there! Will be very interested to see what you built in action.
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Re: pic: Wheeled shirt launcher

Took a bit but here is ours, you cannot see where the t-shirt lands but it is about 115 feet away. The front two wheels are each powered by a CIM and the belts in the back are each powered by a Mini CIM. We couldn't keep testing because we lost the key to one of the mini-CIMs and don't have any extras
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Re: pic: Wheeled shirt launcher

One of several videos from Maker Faire. We estimate about 70ft in the air. The compression of the shirt is very important (our best shots were made with very tightly rolled shirts).
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