pic: 3313 Thor Hammer Swing

[MrBydlon]

Originally Posted by Charles Boehm

When you swing the hammer, do you use a pre-set sequence to release the grippers at the right time? Or is it all manual?
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Thank you!! We are so excited to go to St. Louis. We will definitely stop by your pit and say hi!

We use iterative Java and it's a timed sequence. I believe the grippers open 50 ms (or close to that) before the hammer actually hits the ball. We took some time after completing the initial design to get the timing exactly right. It's cool because in super slow motion, the ball is actually in free fall when the hammer hits.