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Re: Pneumatic Ball Puncher

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Originally Posted by Brandon Zalinsky View Post
I guarantee at least one robot on Einstein will use a pneumatic punch, either one large cylinder or 3-4 smaller ones.
I can almost guarantee that there will not be a successful robot that uses one giant piston for this reason: You are extremely limited to the amount of air that you can get into a giant piston by tubing and fitting size, not even accounting for valve size.
That being said, I believe that it will be possible to use multiple smaller pistons to launch the ball at a decent rate.