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Kelvin Ng Kelvin Ng is offline
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Re: Best Way to Shoot the Balls??

my dad had some awesome ideas. I just wonder about jamming. Is it possible that a pile of balls may interfere with each other's ability to load? Kind of like how 2 balls may get stuck in a funnel and neither actually falls into the hole that is designed to fit one? If that is unclear, sorry I'm not the best person at explaining things.

Is probably best for the shooters if the balls are stored single file to prevent jamming. Boy, I want to go present all my ideas to my old school's team, but as an alumni(us) (which is singular?) I want to leave all the creativity to the students. I just hope they ask me for ideas =).

BTW.

if anybody does not want to use baseball-style guns to fire, I experimented with a scaled down catapult made out of lego. It uses a couple elastics (the more elastics/springs, the more stored energy), to store energy, and the accuracy is surprisingly good. I was able to score little blocks of lego in the 1 foot diametre lego basket from approximately 2 metres away at nearly 100% accuracy. However, there was some awesome recoil from that thing.
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