Personal Robot Building

[Hieb]

While we are considering it for a team project, this could be a personal project as well--we are looking at making a pneumatic cannon for launching tshirts into the crowd at football games. The idea has grown from a simple fixed barrel to using pneumatics to lift the barrel from 0 to 90 degrees with position feedback, using an electro-pneumatic proportional valve control to remotely change the system pressure, and a wind speed/direction sensor. We'd also like to include a custom Dashboard interface to take all of our sensor information and calculate the speed and distance of our t-shirt projectile. It seems like every day we have more ideas being added. There have even been suggestions on how to make "magazine" for launching multiple shirts.

Our purpose for this is to try do something makes our program more visible to the rest of the school while letting us explore the engineering and physics involved with the problem.