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Re: Ball bouncing out of the high Goal
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Originally Posted by pntbll1313
We use a catapult and using our slow motion camera we have almost 0 back spin. We throw it just as hard as we need to in order to have a large sweet spot. Watch our robot's autonomous (low bar blue robot). Sometimes the chains just act like a swing and spit you right back out despite your design. It's almost comical how it spits it right back out at us haha. |
I mean, isn't that a result of the trajectory for a catapult? It throws it hard and somewhat flat directly at the bottom of the chains. It's physics that the ball swings with the chain and continues out when the chains gets pulled back.
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