Team 254's T-Shirt Cannon

[NickE]

Team 254 prouldy presents Shockwave, our t-shirt shooting robot. The robot was built from August to October 2010. Team 254 plans to use Shockwave to promote the team, our school, our sponsors and our community.

Shockwave features a ten-barrel revolver with gatling action, automatic barrel indexing and motorized adjustable pitch. The robot drives at 12+ feet per second and can shoot projectiles over 150 yards.

Visit our team website for additional information, technical specifications, photos and videos. Be sure to check out the videos page to see the robot shoot 3+ shoots per second.

[Jared Russell]

Very sweet. And kudos for not making the barrel out of PVC

[Grim Tuesday]

That, good sir is awesome.
How do you fit T-Shirts into those tiny holes (no, that is not what she said)

Our teams t-shirt launcher is PVC (triple re-inforced), with one huge barrel of about 3 inches radius. Even tightly wrapped, T-Shirst still have to be stuffed in! I really would like to know how you made that beast-machine!

[apalrd]

It looks very awesome.

Very very awesome.

(I want one)

[BrendanB]

Very, very cool! But what type of wheels are those?

Very nice!

[Eugene Fang]

Sick cannon. I expected nothing less from the Poofs.

[NickE]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

But what type of wheels are those?

2010 Kit of Parts "Sticky" Wheels with Custom Hubs

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Of course you wait until I leave to do cool stuff like this.

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by NickE

2010 Kit of Parts "Sticky" Wheels with Custom Hubs

I know what they were it just seemed uncommon for a 254 bot.

Happy Birthday btw!

[h1n1is4pigs]

i like the idea and design.
btw nice job at cal games

[Chris is me]

It took me more than 5 minutes to realize those pictures aren't renders.

[Taylor]

I expect my jaw will close sometime in the next half hour or so. The puddle of drool I'm making is a bit disconcerting.
When you start selling these, let me know.

[Andrew Schreiber]

And it hit Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/5675616/10+barrel.../full+(Gizmodo)

(Don't read the comments, they will make you rage)

And Hackaday (http://hackaday.com/2010/10/28/we-kn...ots-showed-up/)

[Taylor]

How do you guarantee everybody will read the comments?
Thusly:

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

(Don't read the comments, they will make you rage)

[s_forbes]

Impressively built and well thought out design, but you guys do that a lot. Love the rapid fire!