Quote Originally Posted by R9000 View Post
Maybe it's a crazy idea, but perhaps a flywheel-powered flipper could be a thing? You know, where you have an internal flywheel that's built up to speed with a brushless motor, and then you dump that energy into a flipper through some kind of clutch. It would also have a nice internal gyroscopic effect.
Those are an absolute pig to make even for an experienced roboteer. There are only a handful of robots in the world that use that kind of system.