Thread: Vacuum Motors
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Unread 09-01-2013, 16:44
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Re: Vacuum Motors

Last night a few teammates and I were trying a fan theory, in which we could play strong defense by blowing the frisbees off their flight paths using a large fan. We ended up having to use a leaf blower to get the effect we needed, and to create the strength of the motor in the leaf blower, we would need stronger motors than we are allowed to use. However, we did come up with the idea of using air cannons to deflect frisbees. This could be feasable, and we even started thinking about aiming it, and how hard it would be. So we thought we could use sensors, although it would be very complex and it goes against our teams motto for the year: Simplicity & Elegance. I would really like to see a team with like 2 air cannons that act like anti aircraft bases, and alternate fire and can even track frisbees flying nearby.