[Andrew Blair]

Originally Posted by Ianworld

I'm not sure if this is what Blair was going for but this is what i'm envisioning. First place a ball on a cart like object that can carry the ball and make it travel on a short track. Then take a flywheel and bring it into contact with the cart to accelerate it. the cart should travel until it hits a stopper making it stop and any ball on it flying off. It seems like a nice compromise between a flywheel and some other sort cannon mechanism. You get consistency because you're always shooting the same cart object, but it isn't quite as fast and quickly repeatable as a straight flywheel. If you springload the cart so that it automatically comes back you wouldn't have to devote another motor the cart mechanism.

Eh, something like like. Your's is better. There was a thread on here before about converting rotational into linear motion. That was what I referring to. But it seems rather feasible. The other option is to have a flywheel somehow coupled to a rod so that you can throw the rod forward. Rod hits ball, ball goes out.