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Re: T-shirt bot mechanical design requirements

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Originally Posted by cxcad View Post
Anyone have any suggestions for teaching how to make this robot? Also what do you guys think about skipping the single barrel design and going straight to 254 style gun?
Have you built any tee shirt cannons yet?

If not, you probably want to experiment and make a prototype single barrel shooter first. Experiment with air pressures, air discharge volumes, etc. Try to increase your efficiency of shots - make sure you can shoot eight tee shirts in a reasonable time before making an eight barrel launcher.

If you're making a multi-barrel shooter, most of the "coolness" from it just stems from the fact that either A) multi-barrels looks visually cool or B) you can rapid fire. Perhaps you only need four barrels, or maybe you can have a breach loading magazine and achieve the same level of coolness with a simpler/smaller mechanism.
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