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Subject: 
RE: Ping-Pong Ball Shooter
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:37:33 GMT
Original-From: 
Skye Sweeney <(ssweeney@sanders)nomorespam(.com)>
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Exactly, Hot wheels uses the idea as well as those machines that shoot
tennis or baseballs for practice. The baseball ones use a boat trailler wheel
driven by an electric motor. Just make sure the spinning wheel has
a large mass to keep its speed up when the ball comes in contact.

-----Original Message-----
From: The WordMeister [SMTP:dwilcox@wordsmithdigital.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 4:25 PM
To: Jim Thomas; lego-robotics@crynwr.com
Subject: Re: Ping-Pong Ball Shooter



I like the idea of using wheels to accelerate the balls. I believe when I
was a kid one of my friends had a Hot Wheels car wash or somethingorother
that used the same concept to move the little cars around a Hot Wheels
track. Certainly worth trying. I think the balls are so light, though, that
using several sets of wheels might be pointless--it's not like having to
accelerate a large mass.

Thanks!

--Doug Wilcox



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