Hello, I hope that I might get some input as to how to index one ball to release. I made an eight foot troff that holds 15 3" balls at my stop. I mounted one end a 6" strap hinge to plywood. The other end just flops. I installed an eye hook at the end of hinge. Drilled 1/2" hole through plywo…

Are you planning to do this with VEX parts? If not, I’d try asking this on ChiefDelphi.com .

I do not know what parts would be needed and will wait for some response and also post to ChiefDelphi.com . Regards, Scott

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Hi Ethan, Thank you for response. I have been on Mcmaster Carrs website and have used them for other stuff. My problem is not knowing what is actually needed to index one ball at a time, remotely. I did not know what Vex was when I signed up. It came up using a google search. I think I will t…

Hi @ScottN , I presume you are looking at the possibility of using vex parts to do your pitching machine (since this is a vex forum). From my understanding, most pitching machines used a double flywheel to launch the ball. Here’s a video of a double flywheel. [VEX Nothing But Net Team 929…

Probably the simplest method for wireless control would be to buy a very cheap rc car($20 or so) and replace the replace one of the motors with a small geared DC motor to actuate the hinge. To control it you would simply move the joystick for just long enough to release one ball. If you were alrigh…

It may also be easier to set up the system similar to many commercial batting cages. You’d press the button once to start, which would start the program, and then it would launch all the balls with a certain time gap in between. This way the button wouldn’t have to be pressed so many times and the b…

Hello everyone , My head is swimming with responses. Thank you all ! Servo, microprocessor are so far out of my realm. The pitching machine being used is a single wheel flywheel. My problem is in just releasing one ball at a time loaded in the troff to allow one ball to roll into the pitching ma…

You can use a rotating trapdoor like that in a ball machine. [Screenshot_20200904-234003_Samsung Internet] Figure out how far you have to pull the rope to make a quarter turn and that will allow you to drop balls in one at a time

Making a ball loader for grandsons pitching machine in their batting cage

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If you are looking at single flywheel, then you can’t go too wrong with this thread:

You will need to do some adaptations with the “intake” to some sort of a tray to hold the balls?