Mechanical/Electrical Off-Season Projects

[Skute327]

my team participates in the local "pumpkin fling" each year we build a trebuchet (a mideivil weapon kinda simalar to a catapult) to throw a five pound pumpkin as far as possible. we compete with other local groups, this past year we threw 808 feet!
pics are in pictures section of our website:
http://www.westisliprobotics.com

http://www.westisliprobotics.com/med...bcomp/mov1.MOV

http://www.westisliprobotics.com/med...bcomp/mov2.MOV

[Donut]

I personally will be working with one of our old robots or my VEX robot to get more fun sensor and autonomous stuff working, just because I can. We know how to use pretty much every sensor we can want, we just have to figure out why they weren't co-operating on our robot this year, since we never got time to actually test with it.

I also have plans for some cool VEX things. I belive I've come up with an idea for an FVC legal 2-speed transmission that will be ridiculously tiny for something that complex. Even though I was my teams programmer I have alot of fun designing transmissions for whatever reason.