[pfreivald]

Yesterday our winch-back punch threw the ball 38 feet, with the apex right in the sweet spot for the upper goal. Prototyping matters a lot--at first it looked like an utter failure, now it looks great. (Except that it's heavy, slow, etc, etc. Optimization still needs to be done.)

Note that we're prototyping four different launchers and designing our robot for modularity to accommodate whichever of them we ultimately decide is "best".