Day 4

Today we modified our 2009 competition robot to shoot the basketballs, it was as easy as adding VEX spacers to push the back lexan flap out to compress the balls a little more before shooting.

After seeing the results from the Lunacy shooter, we decided to try a two wheel shooter, so a few kids whipped up a 1/3 scale prototype made out of VEX material, if tests go as planned, we will scale it up.

We took a walk down to the gym to figure out some up the best angles to shoot the balls, and see how the ball reacted against the hoop.

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