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Our ball dropper design utilizes a motorized corkscrew mechanism to dispense balls individually. By rotating the servo, we can precisely control the release timing, preventing the balls from dropping all at once.
The balls are released into a guide barrel, which ensures they strike the target with precision
The balls are loaded into a hopper, which stores the entire supply until they are ready to be dispensed into the corkscrew system.
Replica ball of the ones we will be using
Test Prints
While these are significantly scaled-down test prints, they successfully validate the core concept. By testing early, we can identify and resolve potential flaws before they impact the full-scale design. So far, the mechanism is performing exactly as intended.
The corkscrew will sit inside the cylinder and the balls will be pushed through by the mechanism.
Final print
REDESIGN
We decided to redesign the whole thing after some thinking because what we have now is just really big and impractical for the job we are doing but it would have worked for much smaller things so we will keep this design in our minds in the future.
What you see above is what we came up with this is hopper and dropper combined as one print this is much smaller and more practical for this job.
Test Prints
The images above are images from the slicer we use and this is what we are going to print and test because this part contains the mount for the servo and where the balls are dropped from so this will successfully test everything needed in one small print.
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