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

[Carlee10]

I just got done with one of those....we were outside in the rain, then later snow, at midnight the night before, changing the entire throwing arm,trying to figure out how to attach the weights, and how to trigger it with a mousetrap. We had to shoot a golfball, and we had to shoot it 4 meters or more to get the full points, and we had to trigger it with a moustrap.

I like building things, but this was terrible!!!! We actually got our total grade back today, and we had a C- overall, out of the 200 points. It was 10%of our grade, too. I was kind of upset, and our technical report is actually where we lost most of our points...

Yours looks pretty good. We had to have a theme, too. Ours was "Jankapoult";we had caution tape all around it, too, partly as a joke, but partly because we really didn't know how safe it was and our teacher is 8 months pregenat!

[BlackBird11891]

My Gift to u

yes i am trying to make it

[Eugene Fang]

Originally Posted by BlackBird11891

My Gift to u

yes i am trying to make it

Nice work on the CAD so far.

Just FYI, the vertical posts that are in the actual picture but not in the CAD is a safety feature added later in the design process. After the arm is pulled back, a bar goes through the two holes in the two upright bars. This is so that so while someone is hooking up the quick release, if the people holding the arm back accidentally let go, it won't do a full swing.