Recent content by Bloop

ok so, potato launcher with compressed air or spring loaded launcher, my new 2 ideas. Which is more accurate

Lol no, i wish. like i said in the thing, i have to make it out of wood after designing a cad and it has to be oldschool type. The ball is a hackey sack

thanks, will check it out if i go down that route

i may be able to adjust the weight of the counterweight and if not i can do it in between sessions, each sessions is a day, so 1 test 1 day, 1 the next so on

The target is elevated about 1 foot and curved at a 40 degree angle. It can't roll. What do you mean about adjustment mechanism? There will be a 1x1 foot square that we can move the launcher in.

Thank you for the response. Yes i don’t want you to do the project for me lol. I was thinking trebuchet would be the better option because the catapult would need us to manually pull it down leaving more room for error in the repetitiveness. The trebuchet has a same weight counterweight that...

So i need to launch a ball into a target using a personally created launcher using Autodesk and wanted to know the best design type and/or an idea (8th Grade Tech) - 3 inch diameter ball - weight of ball will be updated soon - 25 feet distance - has to be 1 foot by 1 foot or smaller - only 2...