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Are you freakin serious!!!!

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did you know that catapults are specifically outlawed? IIRC, no device can use a "sudden stop" to launch balls.

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this still means that you can use a trebuchet because it follows through after the release of the ball. something i really wanted to do but my team wouldn't let me because i couldn't think of a way to reload it properly without direct human contact, let alone fast enough to be usable during comp. this however doesn't mean that 1155 might not bring a fun toy to launch poof balls with in the courtyard at riverbank state park and hopefully nats.(that is if i can build it after ship in time for NYC)

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I can't find that rule, can you show me where to find it please?

Thanks,
Don

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<S01>...An example of an unsafe design is a shooter mechanism
that has a large mass that is stopped abruptly at the end of travel and is at risk of breaking off the ROBOT
and becoming a projectile.

So you should be fine as lone as you aren't using steel :rolleyes: . What are you using? out of curiosity. this is the first catapult robot ive seen and it looks pretty sweet.

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If you read Justin's post you'll notice that they aren't using this assembly at all! This was simply a prototype.........it wasn't able to satisfy the ruling that makes you have to keep your shooter mechanism inside the original footprint of the robot.

It would have been cool!

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This can't be a design of 118's.... there is far too little chain. :p

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But the twin-shooter design seems like something they'd do.

I for one, can't wait to see the final 118-2006 robot.
I hope you guys will post a teaser of the final design.

This is about the time you finished last year, right?

-JV

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I've seen the ultra-secret shots from deep inside the Nasa think-tank........

looks good!

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I think the key part of that rule may be the second half of it - at risk of breaking off and becoming a projectile. If it's designed such that it doesn't have that risk, then perhaps it would be just fine.

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Man, I hadn't realized how often we build a dually. It's there, in the history. We're obsessed with symmetry. I guess we always went by the maxim, "Why build one, when you can have two for twice the price?" Anyway, a teaser is attached:

edit: I guess that wasn't a teaser after all. In fact, it looks like a cartoon of a horrible monster biting a man in a loincloth while simultaneously stinging him in the eye. Hmmm....

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Could this mean that they can shoot into the top goal and score in a bottom goal at the same time?

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So I was looking at this design, and something just screamed at me: "DESIGN SOMETHING LIKE THIS FOR THE SEASON! THROW BOTH BALLS AT ONCE!"

And then I realized it was just the Mountain Dew speaking.

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You gotta lay off the Mountain Dew. Jolt is much more effective with half of the crazy idea byproduct.

BTW, nice job...2 year old threads ftw.