[Donut]

We've decided the ball should launch out of the side of our robot, and could possibly be on a turret of some sort (this turret will not allow 360 degree rotation though).

The current plan is to also have it leave the robot high up. The ball will be picked off the ground by a conveyor belt and roll through a slightly angled trough (similar to the chutes that move gumballs in gumball machines) to our shooter, where there will be some sort of stopper to prevent balls from automatically rolling into the shooter and firing. The prevailing idea for the actual shooter is to then have the balls roll underneath a rotating wheel, and be carried around the wheel so that they fire out above the wheel in the opposite direction. So the two lifting mechanisms will be the conveyor belt and the shooter itself.

The actual shooter has changed in design every few days though, so the shooter might change again, but the rest should stay the same.