Air Cannon

[Cody Carey]

Originally Posted by OZ_341

Team 306 (Corry Robotics) brought a T-shirt shooting robot to our Ramp Riot Competition last November. I would look them up. They did an awesome job.

Yes we did, although its not very rapid fire, we charge it with 2 standard KOP air compressors, and the tank is (pressure rated) PVC. All we used for a firing mechanism was a solenoid from a sprinkler system, and it seems to work well . we used the proper adhesive to attach the end caps onto our tank, and even though it all checks out safety-wise, I still don't like to stand in the way of where the tank ends are "aimed". Some kids tried to emulate our tank with wood glue and non-rated PVC and put a hole through our schools door with the PVC cap.

[Gabe]

XInventions has a great area on air cannons and combustion cannons. First look at their combustion TP launcher (yes, toilet paper), get the general idea, and then look at their air cannons.

http://www.xinventions.com/main/spud/home.htm

Cool project!