[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

I imagine that the softball pitching machine shown during the kickoff had a significant effect on teams' initial concepts.

If you've spent a cumulative 12 kid-years in Little League, it didn't take any prompting...

We set out NOT to build a wheel launcher at first, mostly because we wanted to do something different. After going through the issues of energy management, ease of construction, and packaging, the single-wheel launcher won. I want to see someone using a twin-belt launcher, though, as I still think it will be more repeatable. I really want to see a pneumatic catapult or kicker!