[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by teh_masterer

what about the catapult

is there anyother way to do a robot that could fire a ball

One of our team mentors is noodling about a system where the ball is placed in a launching tube, and then smacked with a spring-loaded paddle (like a giant ping pong ball). The spring-loaded arm would be cocked either by pneumatic cylinders or a low-RPM motor assembly. I'm not saying we are doing this, by the way, but it is one of the out-of-the-box ideas we are (kind of) considering.