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Re: ball cannon???

I been reading this thread and drawing up a few designs, I still think a cannon is not going to be accurate enough.

I been looking at drawing a cannon design were it can hold at least 6 moon rocks. So after you have that loaded you have to hunt down a moving robot to score your points

I think the safest bet is to have a robot that can plow your balls to the human player so he can then shoot to score. This way the human player can adapt to how the other team is playing. I just have a feeling that a human player will be able to get more shots off then a cannon can.

I also think a hopper robot would be great, but then you are filling your hopper and hoping when you go to unload it that you can get them all in at one shot and if you miss, you just wasted all that time

I am sure I will see a couple teams design an awesome cannon that will make me eat my words. I do have to say my favorite robots each year are the ones that makes the hardest task look easy.
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