
09-01-2017, 16:48
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Alumni turned Mentor
AKA: Branden Gunn
 FRC #4761
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Rookie Year: 1996
Location: Reading, MA
Posts: 893
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Re: G28 Clarification - Air Powered Shooter
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Originally Posted by efoote868
I wonder if you were to design an air powered shooter with the end of the barrel working with a principle similar to a silencer... the air pressure would disperse well before the end of the barrel.
If you were to set fuel at the end of the "barrel", there wouldn't be enough air pressure to move it, or one could even demonstrate with paper there is no air current at the end of the barrel. Then you can demonstrate to the head referee that there is no air flowing outside of your robot, so G28 would not apply.
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That's quite an engineering challenge, but if you were to accomplish and demonstrate that, it would pass inspection as far as i can tell from the known rules.
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