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Re: Are any teams planning on shooting the ball?
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Re: Are any teams planning on shooting the ball?
Team 1501 had a great idea but we had to throw it out.
You have a ramp with a supply of automobile airbags. One airbag per launched trackball. Put airbag in place behind trackball and BANG, trackball is launched over rack and beyond What do you think? |
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One of our students actually suggested this as well. We all got a good chuckle out of it. Of course, we had to explain that using explosives to launch the ball would not be legal in competition. We also encouraged the kids to keep thinking outside the box like this. Then, see if the ideas they came up with fit within the rules, or as we use them, "Design Criteria".
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So Winnovation and Robot Casserole are thinking of launching the ball. I'm really looking forward to the Wisconsin Regional now.
Too bad the Detroit Regional is the same weekend. I'd like to see what the Thunder Chickens are thinking of as well. |
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It would be cool if i didnt think it was someone throwing it over :\
Hehe, Atleast put some sound in it! |
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Allow me to put your mind at ease--the only thing that touched the ball was the shooting mechanism. In fact, we had to shoot the ball about 4 times before we got a video that didn't show the mechanism
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I'm still curious how launching teams are planning on corralling these trackballs after the hurdle. Unless you're launching nearly vertical, those trackballs are going to have a pretty decent horizontal velocity and are going to bounce around a rather lot. That's assuming you don't have a human on the other end to politely catch the ball for you. So I think launching the ball will be easier in some respects, but I think you'll end up losing time recapturing the ball afterwards. Plus you don't get the bonus points for ending with the ball on the overpass unless you're really, really talented. |
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We played with backspin when tossing the ball over by hand....it's not too hard to get it to bounce straight up
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