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Originally Posted by Dominick Ferone
We were talking and whats the best way to launch unusual items, such as lunacy balls, breakaway balls, frisbees, footballs and other random object you could also find around the shop?
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Most FRC grippers are made specifically to hold a certain size/shape/weight piece, so most of the usual tricks won't work. Some sort of speed-controlled catapult/ballista (I'm thinking motors and encoders) could be used to get everything up to an appropriate/consistent speed. To hold the pieces, I'd try a gripper that can accommodate many shapes, probably by having multiple pneumatic arms that curl in on the "game piece". You can use the thing on the other side of your wrist as a rough template.