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Unread 05-04-2016, 23:31
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Re: Ball bouncing out of the high Goal

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Originally Posted by pntbll1313 View Post
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.
That's kind of like playing miniature golf with the wacky obstacles such as having to hit the ball through the spinning blades of a windmill. I seem to recall someone shooting a boulder in the high goal on one side and it came out the goal on the other side.
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