Thread: ball cannon???
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Unread 05-01-2009, 21:29
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Re: ball cannon???

Our team is... Broke. And we have very little options as far as welding and machining... But we've been tossing around the cannon idea. Pick the balls up and hold them monetarily, but have the cannon able to rotate (via control from the drive) but shoot at a fixed angle, variable speed. Kinda difficult, but managable. Conveyor belts used to shoot it out as speed.

First thing I thought was the ride-up-and-dump thing. But the two main things with this are a.) Bumper Rule: 60% must be covered and b.) slipery floors make this difficult.
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