I was arguing with my team mates about the practicality of a flywheel, so I thought the forum might give some good opinions. In my opinion, a flywheel launcher is totally possible, the intake is the hard part. The robot will need to pick up stars rapidly, and when the stars are been fed to the fly …

A flywheel might end up working but I will bet a lot to say that it will not be efficient and effective enough. To me there is no point of making it if it won’t be able to do well in the long run.

My friend wants to make one just to get a design award… :stuck_out_tongue:

I don’t know if it would be considered great for the design award, because judges look for good functionality in special designs

I can say with certainty that there will never be an effective flywheel bot in Starstruck. You CAN quote me on that.

Take ALBA’s side roller design, gear it up, and you have the beginnings of a flywheel XD

[image] Poseyhead: Take ALBA’s side roller design, gear it up, and you have the beginnings of a flywheel XD Could you show us a picture or link to the side roller idea?

[image] Duke4221c: Could you show us a picture or link to the side roller idea? [image] REVEAL: ALBA's Open Source Starstruck Robot VEX V5 General Discussion VEX Robot Showcase …

Ok, I’m certainly not doing this for a design, but I want to voice my design for this. For the intake, do something like this: VEX Starstruck Idea - YouTube but better. For example, you can do the prongs like they have, and put lexan guards around it to force the star into the correct orientation. T…

Our B team is working on a flywheel (despite my advice to the contrary) as a side project. It “works” in that stars go through it, but a dumper would give a greater horizontal velocity. They also haven’t yet considered an intake, so I don’t know how far they’ll go. It’s possible, though. The intake…

Has anyone got a flywheel bot yet?

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Poseyhead September 21, 2016, 7:03pm 8

(I mostly meant this as a joke but if you can make it happen I will be impressed)