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Originally Posted by bjimster1
what happened to the "ray gun"? I was waiting to see what you guys were gonna do with that. would have been very cool.
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Sadly, the "ray gun" just couldn't pull through. Every part we ordered from the machine shop at Motorola came out wrong, or never came at all. Our lead machinist Lee tried with all his might (5 straight days of working till 5 am) to get fab all the parts that were wrong or missing, but we simply ran out of time. Luckily however, the testing we did on the new gun (started on Sunday) has all been good so we are confident in the new design.
The loading works by the white piece that connects the hopper to the gun. the balls roll down that and into the gun. Although it is in the picture, the clear (and thus invisible with crappy camera) lexan that wraps around the hopper is cut and extends all the way to the gun thus acting as a guide. The balls flow into that gun like water flows off Niagara Falls.
Good Luck to all the other teams!
See ya at UCF, SC, and the Championship!