Tiny-Con : A scaled down Hy-Con wheels and Ultra* cage based rapidstrike setup with groove fillers

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All this time I've been messing up by only having gcode for multistar wheels. That's all fixed now. The cage is the RapidStrike cage from UltraSonic2, but it's got two major changes. First off, it doesn't use normal ultracage wheels - it uses a completely different set of wheels that are essentially scaled-down versions of Hy-Con wheels. I've gotta give credit to torukmakto4 for coming up with the idea of small, Hy-Con-esque wheels that can fit in the ultracage, as well as the basic profile of these wheels, which are modeled after his Hy-Con wheels but smaller. The second major change is the addition of groove fillers to eliminate jams. Adding those groove fillers made this cage the workhorse I wanted. Reliability-wise, I've had no issues since adding them, and I've taken my SpideyStrike with these wheels to two HvZ events so far. With Accufakes, I got 158-177 FPS, with an average in the upper 160s. This is with wheels spinning at 37K, which I haven't checked is super critical yet. Performance-wise, it's about the same as 8.7mm normal ultra wheels. However, since the actual Hy-Con cage is gentler on darts, I'd expect this one to be too - but that remains untested. I no longer have green Accufakes that would provide an easy test of this. My 8.7mm UltraStrike would decap most of those as they left the cage, whereas my Hy-Con rig would fire a fair amount of them successfully. Groove Fillers ================ The big change this cage has is its large groove fillers. With these groove fillers, jams like the one shown at https://i.imgur.com/xTrK5uj.jpg should never happen again. In fact, even with just one wheel spinning, I've fed dozens of darts through without any jamming whatsoever!