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Re: Team 2022's kicker in action!

We actually had to calculate the angles and distance at which to kick the ball very carefully. Lot's of trig and physics to get the right mounting distances. We tested and prototyped with MANY different kinds of kicking (elastic, motor powered, kickplate, pretty much everything you can think of), but we found that pneumatics alone would get the job done.

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