Team 48 T-Shirt Cannon at Harding Football Game

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by F22Rapture

NICE!

Have you guys done measured how far that thing can shoot?!?!?!?!? Incredibly impressive.

We haven't measured explicitly, but I'm guessing the specs are in the ballpark of those posted on Team 254's website for Shockwave, which would make sense, since our cannon's pneumatic system was modeled heavily after theirs, and we consulted with them before proceeding with our design. They were very friendly in providing an overview of how their system worked and the part numbers of the critical pneumatic hardware they used. We use the same 1" NPT MAC solenoid valve they do - it's the blue beast in the lower left rear of the robot. Our primary regulator is set to 150 psi.

In addition to shirt range, I desperately want to find out how far and accurately it can shoot a golf ball, especially with an effective sabot design applied. In addition to the obvious promotional opportunities, many fundraising and new sponsor (the lexan on the robot is blank for a reason - "your logo here" :-P) opportunities present themselves to you when you have one of these robots at your disposal. I am also very pleased to have this robot on hand as an electrical/controls teaching aid, because the controls layout is wide-open, flat, with all wiring clearly visible.