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Re: Question Burst
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:13:00 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Brian Davis wrote:
In lugnet.robotics, Andrew Meyer wrote:

  To the GBC guys: How do you efficiently project a ball from a
Lego robot several feet?


Brian missed a method that worked for me.  I put a 14 long lift arm on an RC
Buggy motor and created a feed mechanism to put in one ball at a time.  The
resulting distance was about 25-30 feet.  Ultimately, Steve threatened me with
the addition of a velocity limit in the GBC spec...personally, I just think he
was afraid I was going to break his kitchen window  :)

Bryan



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  Re: Question Burst
 
(...) Well, there's a few methods that have been tried. The first was just to have two closely-spaced wheels spinning rapidly - when a ball falls between them, it's shot out. This seems to require heavy wheels and RC motors (gear motors have been (...) (19 years ago, 25-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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