Thread: Linear Shooters - How did you do it?
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Re: Linear Shooters - How did you do it?
Team 1501 took a different approach to the shooter design. We use pnuematic cylinders to pivot a monocoque constructed sail which telescopes out the rails (chrome-moly tubing) to tension surgical that is attached to our sled. A tilting action on the sled is created by the pivoting of the sail which use to pick up the ball for launch. We have posted videos on youtube.com that demonstrates our design. We went in this derection for two reasons, first, as a means to build a safe energy device to eliminate injuries and secondly, it is a cool mechanism that works very effectively.

We also have a unique device to remove the ball from the overpass which we have intensionally kept from display.