I am currently doing a ball shooter project in university and using the DC Encoder motor of 185 RPM, gear ratio of 1.46, and variability of 10%, but it’s not powerful enough to hit the ball into the 30cm high basket that is 50cm away from it despite the fact that it is running on a fully charged battery.
I’ve even changed the code several times but it’s still the same.
The makeblock kit was supplied by my uni.
What would you suggest that I should do to ensure the motor has enough power?
Also, I noticed that same motor can’t go backwards smoothly when I set the rotation to -5000 degrees, it glitches but doesn’t when the value of the degrees is set to a positive value.
Is it that the motor can only go one way and not the opposite way?
Please, would you know the code block that I can use to reverse the rotation of the motor in a fluid way?