pic: Technokats Robot pic 1

[Kyle Love]

The shooter shoots around a ball per second. The load system is actually pretty simple...balls go up the front rollers, then down our roller coaster and gets a nice little shot into the katapult. (Pics of the "nice little shot" to come)

[Tim Arnold]

Sweet. Man, quick reply too. I wasn't even done editing my last post and you had already replied

[Stephen Kowski]

wow cool katapult....i was hopin you'd go for the quantity over quality three ball shooter, but o well

am i going crazy or is there a servo in the throwing arm?

[Kyle Love]

Originally Posted by Stephen Kowski

wow cool katapult....i was hopin you'd go for the quantity over quality three ball shooter, but o well

am i going crazy or is there a servo in the throwing arm?

Nice observation

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by robosapien

Looks like it is a single fire, lock (EDIT: The 'c' word got filtered)-and-load-and-shoot method, correct?

We eventually settled on calling the action of pulling back the arm "winding", to avoid s$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#s (and filters). Winding the arm into place automatically loads a waiting ball into position to be flung. The major limit on launch rate is the brief time it takes for the newly loaded ball to stop bobbling so it goes straight when flung.

[R Stephenson]

also how does the camera hold up be in the open?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by R Stephenson

also how does the camera hold up be in the open?

I don't know, and I'd rather not find out. I plan to insist on adding some sort of protection to the camera as one of the team's first to-do items at the Boilermaker regional.