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Re: Check out our cannon bot!

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Originally Posted by ZZII 527
Very nice! We've got a compact tennis ball cannon mounted on (of all things) a Vex platform here. It's quite fun to shoot tennis balls down two buildings worth of hallways. The sprinkler valves come in quite handy and although they are spec'ed for 24V AC, they trigger perfectly fine with 3 9V batteries in series, perhaps through a spike relay for remote firing.
Just last night, team 1147 had the opportunity to shoot their Robot Mounted T-Shirt Cannon during a "TV time out" at the Sacramento Kings vs. New Orleans Hornets NBA game. Our first shot landed two shirts in the upper deck of ARCO Arena. A feat that their mascot Slamson is unable to do even with only one shirt.
We will post a video as soon as we can get it edited (a long period of "out of focus" needs to be removed).
We use the same Rain Bird sprinkler valve set up. We trigger it off 12vdc through a Spike.
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