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Sadly we were unable to line up the plates properly so the left outer plate is about half an inch farther forward than the right, so the shooter axle is turned a bit to the right, so it doesnt shoot straight. 

Mateus and I worked on Friday and Saturday to make a more structrually stable shooter prototype. 

We disassembled the previous prototype, cut wood blocks as spacers instead of standoffs, and assembled everything with wood screws. 

We also cut down the outer plates by bandsawing off about half of it, shortening the design by quite a lot.

In the first testing, the ball bounced off the wall and got sucked back under the shooter wheel, causing the entire assembly to explode, bending the plates, ripping out the CIM and the wheel shaft. We fixed the parts and reassembled everything, adding on two feet to place cinder blocks to hold down the shooter a bit. 

We then tested various configuartions (2 wheel +flywheel, 1 wheel+flywheel, 1 wheel), concluding that the added power of the flywheel is necessary for the design to be most successful. Does a good job of shooting into the goal, but with a lot of vibration. 

Lining up plates is difficult, in the final design we need to make sure there is only one way to properly assemble. 

Continue testing, but we can't really test 2 shooter wheels vs 1 because there isnt enough room to assemble them in such a way that they are equally spaced. 

Figure out if having the flywheel on the inside is a possible solution or if it affects accuracy too much. Maybe put two to balance out?

Buy and test all three versions of the higrip wheel to see which one is the best for our purposes. 

Maybe.