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Re: ball cannon???

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Originally Posted by GGCO View Post

I think that a baseball type shooter is alright. There are some definite issues of how to get the ball into the elevator that feeds it. It really has to be a perfect scenario for a ball to find its way to the opening of the bot, not run away from it because it hit a part of the bumper, and get wedged into it and go up into the elevator. However, if you can get around this problem it's a decent system. This is because you can (potentially if your turret can rotate) drop/shoot balls into an enemy bot's trailer from all 3 sides of your robot! You can also control how many balls go into the trailer!
My team has a great idea for grabbing balls from the ground, and having up to 10 waiting to be fired with the baseball shooter. I'm 100% that there will be problems with it, but it will be awesome if it works just like we plan it to.
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