pic: 108 Gun Teaser
 

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Cool! Is that an electrostatic Nerf rail gun?

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I don't get it... How does the ball get accelerated?

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Belts (that aren't shown) line the sides of the gun, two pulleys aren't shown either. The belts will spin ridiculously fast and out will come a ball at (hopefully) 12 m/s in a relatively straight line. We hope....

108

P.S. the estimated acceleration of the ball is 283 ish m/s^2.
time spent in barrel = .064 seconds.
at that rate, it should take only 293 hours, 46 minutes, and 41.17 seconds to reach the speed of light.

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Don't forget about air resistance with your light speed calculation there, it would probably take more like 500 hours.

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Don't forget physics/realitivity. It's impossible.

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but most importantly dont forget the 12m/s rule.

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Looks great. Nice design.
Is it legal to transport balls from the robot to the center goal :ahh:
How would they measure the m/s?
If a ball disappears from the bot and reappears at the goal than there is no velocity. Right?

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Figures. While we are all designing shooters, 108 is making a futuristic scifi levitation ray to put balls in the center goal directly from the ground.