Launching Shooter-style

[cmrnpizzo14]

Team AndyMark originally prototyped a flywheel style shooter for this year. I don't think that they had any success and it was only mentioned in passing in the video but I'm sure if you shot someone on the team a PM or email they would be happy to share the results with you.

I think that someone on youtube tried a shooter like this too but I can't remember, I will look for the video and post it if I find it.

[Ether]

Originally Posted by cmrnpizzo14

Team AndyMark originally prototyped a flywheel style shooter for this year. I don't think that they had any success ...

I think that someone on youtube tried a shooter like this too but I can't remember, I will look for the video and post it if I find it.

Does anyone know what the minimum required ball exit speed is for a serviceable shooter for this game? From that it should be easy to calculate a good guess for the necessary wheel moment of inertia.

[steinra]

Originally Posted by Ether

Does anyone know what the minimum required ball exit speed is for a serviceable shooter for this game? From that it should be easy to calculate a good guess for the necessary wheel moment of inertia.

I am not sure if it equates to a shooter, but to throw the distance we are looking at, up to 37 ft/s is the numbers we have crunched with about a 40degree launch angle.

Should be enough for those to figure out how far we are looking to get the ball to travel.

Randy

[Pretzel]

Originally Posted by Ether

Does anyone know what the minimum required ball exit speed is for a serviceable shooter for this game? From that it should be easy to calculate a good guess for the necessary wheel moment of inertia.

Our team calculated that it should take an initial velocity of around 10 m/s or greater to make a goal from 13 feet away (close to four meters) using a 45* launch angle. These are the rounded numbers we set as goals four our launching mechanism to keep in mind while designing them.

[one_each]

Don't forget to adjust for launch height.