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Re: Catapult?

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Originally Posted by Leo 1529
i also dont think that a catapult is a good idea. it may be accurate but it takes even more to get 1 ball to fall into the catapult at once, unless you want to shoot more than one at a time
Not to toot my own horn, but two or three years ago, when we had the last non-autonomous period, we had a game based on soccerballs. We built a catapult powered by constant force springs (the springs made of coiled sheet metal) using 6 5lb springs, we got our robot to shoot soccer balls 99% effectively. The good thing about this was that our robot did not shoot at different velocities because of the change in our battery level.