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  Re: Ping-Pong Ball Shooter
 
Hey, Dave, good to hear from you ... Do you want me to forward all the Ping-Pong shooter messages so far? I've thought about a catapult, but it presents some engineering problems--but this is worth exploring; I've seen catapults over and over in (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Ping-Pong Ball Shooter
 
I prototyped a catapult design several months ago that used two motors to "cock" and fire/launch a rubber-band driven ball-launcher. The loading/firing sequence was something like: 1) load ball on catapult. 2) power motors in reverse at low power (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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