ball launching robot

[gniticxe]

Originally posted by XRaVeNX
it would probably be quite hard to calculate the trajectory and the force required to launch the balls into the goal. As Woodie said, each ball is inflated differently, so each ball would travel through the air a different way.

I heard Woodie say that too, but in the Game PDF file, in big bold italic, it says (under 1.2.2) that "Balls will be inflated to manufacture's specification for pressure." I dunno if Woodie just accidentally slipped that out or what. If they're all inflated to the same pressure, they should all be the same size too.
And I dunno about the hard math in programming a ball-shooter, you need to triangulate distance to goal, then figure out at what angle and with what velocity to shoot the ball out with some easy physics. I'm not saying I could program that by any means, just the math/physics