Who still thinks pneumatic catapults won't work for this game?

[falconmaster]

We came up with a term to help explain what we have done with pneumatics this year. We call it an articulated pneumatics system. It consists of using pulses to the solenoids to get the desire power from the catapult and using two variable synchronized pneumatic systems to adjust the trajectory of the ball as it sits on the catapult before the catapult launches. It has been working beautifully. We can get any trajectory we want and have the shot sequences programed to the game controller. We believe this we key to us winning the AZ regional this year. We used the KOP chassis and a pinching D-arm mechanism that rotates from the ground to the catapult. The pitching mechanism was also done by a set of cylinders. We were receiving criticism for choosing pneumatics and for the our arm design. It looks like the criticism was for not.... lets see how we do at championships. we currently have 117.75 OPR,...not bad eh?