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You're fighting over whether this is a catapult or a trebuchet? I feel you time and effort is being used as well as if it went towards the game hint.
First of all, I don't think anyone is "fighting" over anything. There is a polite, rational discussion going on as to the appropriate terminology to use when referring to this design. Precision with words is equally as important as precision in drawings, or in machining. Often it is more important!

But I do appreciate the humour in the statement.

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Re: pic: "You should never go against a robotics kid"

I think we decided to call it a "Catachet"

Sounds French...
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Re: pic: "You should never go against a robotics kid"

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I think we decided to call it a "Catachet"

Sounds French...
Or a "CAD-achet."
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Re: pic: "You should never go against a robotics kid"

my school security guards flipped out when we were test firing our robotic t-shirt cannon because they thought it was a weapon so we arent aloud to make stuff like that anymore lol. great job by the way... i sure wish i had one
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my school security guards flipped out when we were test firing our robotic t-shirt cannon because they thought it was a weapon so we arent aloud to make stuff like that anymore lol. great job by the way... i sure wish i had one
Lol, that's why you should usually let school admin know what you're up to with stuff like that
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Lol, that's why you should usually let school admin know what you're up to with stuff like that
Our school actually asked us to build a t-shirt cannon for rallies, and they actually reimbursed us on the cost of the parts, so that was pretty cool.
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RE: What it's called?

First of all, I call it "cool"!

Trebuchets were the ultimate development of the stationary flinging-arm military weapon, but by the 14th century they were being overtaken by early cannon. Since no one alive now speaks a 14th century dialect, we are unlikely to be using the proper name in 21st century English, especially since I doubt medieval siege engines used in probably dozens of different kingdoms, duchies, and counties were all called the same thing. I believe were are applying our modern passion for rigid definitions to devices created in a time where no such cladistic hegemony existed.
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First of all, I call it "cool"!

Trebuchets were the ultimate development of the stationary flinging-arm military weapon, but by the 14th century they were being overtaken by early cannon. Since no one alive now speaks a 14th century dialect, we are unlikely to be using the proper name in 21st century English, especially since I doubt medieval siege engines used in probably dozens of different kingdoms, duchies, and counties were all called the same thing. I believe were are applying our modern passion for rigid definitions to devices created in a time where no such cladistic hegemony existed.

Not entirely sure but i believe the term was changed during the Mongolian rule of Central Asia... or at least the Khan or Seljuk Turks created a different type and changed the terms..
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Re: pic: "You should never go against a robotics kid"

doesn't a trebuchet have a mass one one side of its arm instead of surgical tubing?
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doesn't a trebuchet have a mass one one side of its arm instead of surgical tubing?
Well, what people have been saying is that a trebuchet uses a weight and not a spring, so it sholud be called a catapult, but a catapult doesn't have a sling, so it should be a trebuchet.

let's just call it a "Catachet"

And the video should come soon, Bannanakin is (attempting to) upload it to Youtube.
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Re: pic: "You should never go against a robotics kid"

I really hope that that CAD was not made in Inventor provided for FIRST....
(That may violate the EULA! Oh Noes!)
Sweet "Catachet" though!
Maybe our team should make an pneumatic catapult...
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I really hope that that CAD was not made in Inventor provided for FIRST....
(That may violate the EULA! Oh Noes!)
Sweet "Catachet" though!
Maybe our team should make an pneumatic catapult...

I don't believe that would violate the EULA for the FIRST provided inventor. I haven't used it in a few years, but IIRC it's simply the educational version which means that the only restriction is that you are not allowed to use it for any commercial products (ie anything you would be making money off of). This is clearly a non-commercial product.
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I really hope that that CAD was not made in Inventor provided for FIRST....
(That may violate the EULA! Oh Noes!)
Sweet "Catachet" though!
Maybe our team should make an pneumatic catapult...
The CAD was made using a student edition of SolidWorks.
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My family makes puns all of the time, but even by our standards, geez, these are bad! And for reference, the term "almost completely safe" can always be disproven. There's blood on the sidewalk at my middle school from when I did a video project with rubber chickens. If there's enough force to hurl a couple of pounds over a football field's distance, there's enough force to cause damage.
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