pic: 1625's shooter ready to fire

[Aren_Hill]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

What is that giant heatsink on?

the FP motor that steers the wheels, it actually helps for when the bots running for more than 2 minutes.

Leav, look at the next picture of our shooter and you'll get a better idea how it works, its kinda tough to do with words.

Originally Posted by Karthik

Congratulations to the gang at 1625 on coming up with such a simple and elegant solution. Pretty much everyone from 1114 had the same reaction when we checked out your shooting mechanism in Chicago, "That's so cool!".

We wanted to accomplish a punching mechanism without having any other actuation, as we've never used pneumatics once in our 4 years and another motor is more weight.