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Re: Cool/Unique Offseason Projects

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Originally Posted by blueyoshi256 View Post
Team 2823 built a ping pong shooting robot over the summer. We needed something fun for demonstrations, and something durable and simple enough to be driven with little training. As a bonus, custom ping pong balls are pretty cheap, and the backspin makes it very fun. It still breaks far more often than we want, but it turned out pretty well.

Also, some of our older students are mentoring a new FTC team during the "offseason".
Our team was also thinking of making a ping pong ball shooter for an off season project. How did you launch the ping pong balls and how fast were you able to accelerate them to? I was just curious.
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