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Re: Catapult issues with boulders

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Originally Posted by ahartnet View Post
That's interesting and I'm glad you found a solution. However, I'm not sure how the bending of the frame only impacts new balls and not old balls. Any theories on that?
It is odd. What I can tell you is that older balls still have a higher trajectory than new balls. What we noticed is that older balls seem to leave the pan quicker, we assume, getting a slightly longer lever arm from the motion and going higher.

With the changes in the support of the cylinders, all shots have more backspin. We assume that means they are rolling off the pan more. We haven't had time to do slow-mo video after the fix.

Hopefully, we see the same changes on the bagged robot Wednesday.
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