pic: Front left view of ai cannon

[rokenboker]

Originally Posted by EricH

I understand that the tank is metal; we used to get a similarly sized black one in the KOP. Pneumatics weren't exactly common while we had that... Something about no onboard compressor and the tank weighed about 12-13 lbs on a 130 lb robot (and the cylinder rules didn't help).

I'm not sure that parallel batteries are the best thing, especially if you charge them in parallel. (There was a discussion on this earlier this summer, IIRC.) Being a mechanical, I defer to the electrical guys on that, though.

I wasn't referring to the tether cable when I mentioned spaghetti. Matter of fact, I couldn't tell there was a tether cable on there... this may be due to about 20-30 wires going all over the place.

oh, sorry. the wires are actually tied down, it's just that there are so many of them in such a small area. anyway, thanks, and if you would like a schematic, i may be able to do something like that.

[gallo26]

wow! That looks pretty cool! I'd love to see a video of this in action.

It looks to me like the "Spaghetti" of wires is just long PWM cables that were bundled together. add a few bundles... But otherwise it looks like all your wires are nicely tied down.

How far does it shoot an object? What object does it shoot?