We are currently doing a full rebuild for our over under robot. Our old robot had a catapult, but most of the faster launchers we have seen, are punchers of some sort. Any tips or tricks for making a fast puncher/launcher that can easily clear the middle barrier? (also we are making a giraffe bot, so it shouldn’t have to be TOO strong)
One way is to use a double-slip gear, where you have 2 sets of shaved teeth instead of one (like 6 shaved - 6 teeth - 6 shaved - 6 teeth). This effectively doubles the amount of launches per rotation.
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Thank you, on our first bot we actually had four sets of teeth on the slip gears, but that only fit because our catas range of motion was so short.
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