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Re: T-shirt bot mechanical design requirements

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Originally Posted by artdutra04 View Post
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.
We have someone working on developing the pneumatic system right now. I'm not sure how a four barrel design is any simpler. And from the research, I have done, it seems that breach loading is difficult with t-shirts. I'll give this some more thought

asid Any suggestions for auto loading? I'll look into it