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Re: Catapult?

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Originally Posted by Ikeyballz
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.
Boy was that impressive!! I remember that one.