pic: Front left view of ai cannon

[rokenboker]

i will answer the questions in the order they came...

this air cannon gets about 3, sometimes 4 shots, depending on if you want a very wimpy shot...lol

the light was mostly for cool factor, but it does help at night (seeing as i do live in the city...lol) when i am driving it around, just so cars will see it and not hit it. the air horn too was originally for cool factor too, but yes, it helps warn people that this will be firing in less than 10 seconds.

now to what everyone says NOT to do...the only piece of PVC that is being used is for the BARREL. the air storage tank just for the cannon barrel is that BIG yellow, metal tank. that was given to me before i had even bought the other parts to make this. so not once did i ever have PVC for the storage tank. hope i wasn't being rough there, sorry if i was...

the batteries are in parallel, if you all remember right, the IFI control system only uses 12VDC.

there is no recoil whatsoever on the tank itself or the air horn, and also that is not the most recent configuration for the air horn (my camera broke recently, so that was the last picture, but i'll have more on VERY, VERY soon) the air horn is on the front, far side of the robot in this picture.

actually, that red wire was the tether ( i say was because it fell down where the wheel is and got caught and nearly took off the tether port, dumb freaking move i know.....but that is now off and on the OI.

Thanks for the compliments.



yes that is a 12" pneumatic cylinder to raise and lower the barrel with more positions than just low and high. you can move it to different positions because i used 2 FESTO single acting valves. if you want, i can go down and give you the schematic for the positioning system.