Best way to launch fuel?

[saintblaze4639]

what do y'all think is the best way to launch the balls?
Mono flywheel? Double flywheels? Catapults? Flip Shooter? Anything else?
Thanks!!

[Boltman]

Yes...

[cad321]

All of the above.

[DanielPlotas]

Consistently.

[GeneralMit]

Flip shooter?

[IronicDeadBird]

Glad it was specific enough to say fuel.
When picking a launching system don't neglect to look at the scoring system, because it is possible to design a shooter that will score you less then the low boiler.
Since this isn't ancient china teams generally don't use a chu-ko-nu , instead people opt for flywheels because you can drop a payload into a flywheel and its gone.
I did once see a triple flywheel design mounted on a claw that actuated and man that thing looked like it was designed to rip faces off...

[saintblaze4639]

which is the most consistent and easiest to package though?

[GreyingJay]

Easiest to package, I'd guess would be a single wheel shooter. It's just a motor, a wheel, and something to guide the path of the fuel on the other side.

Is your team trying to decide which to do? This sounds like a great prototyping exercise. Get some plywood and 2x4's, a couple of wheels, a few motors (or power drills), and have at it.

[saintblaze4639]

we have a very nice single wheeled shooter with a hood, and we are trying to decide how to adjust the angle, either by bending/compressing the angle of the hood or keeping the hood steady and rotating the entire thing

[parthpatel612]

No thoughts on a pneumatic launcher?

[Chris is me]

There is no "best", there's only the best that your team can demonstrably accomplish before committing to a final design. Prototype!

Top tier teams will make several different designs work at the highest levels of play; that doesn't mean they are all equally viable or good for your team.

"You don't have to prototype everything, just the things you want to work."

[IronicDeadBird]

Originally Posted by saintblaze4639

which is the most consistent and easiest to package though?

That's dependent on needs and ability.
I can tell you what works in a perfect situation but generally we work with what you have not what you want.

Originally Posted by parthpatel612

No thoughts on a pneumatic launcher?

Those are always gated by the fact you need air tanks and those take up space. That's not to say they don't work.

[Awesomegamer235]

I would say something that can just keep launching the balls if it can just be fed
1 robot can sit and shoot while one goes and feeds it balls along with the other robot going and getting the gears

[gorrilla]

Originally Posted by saintblaze4639

which is the most consistent and easiest to package though?

Probably a single wheel shooter that feeds from underneath