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Trebuchet #2 – Testing Again

Posted on November 25, 2015

We’re back for another round of trebuchet testing, and this time the prototype is beginning to look like a functioning weapon of (small scale) warfare. Above you can see the prototype assembly. The supports hold …

Posted in Archived Posts, Trebuchet #2Tagged 3d print, Launch Angle, Max Distance, Optimization, optimize, Prototype, testing, trebuchet

Filament Detector Setup and Attaching to Printer

Posted on November 23, 2015

At this point in the project, we have the color sensor system ready to be attached to the printer to start detecting the filament. A few things to note are that due to availability of …

Posted in Archived Posts, Filament detectorTagged Full Assembly, RGB Sensor setup, testing

Trebuchet #2 – Testing.

Posted on November 7, 2015

The next step of our trebuchet project is to test our initial prototype. We printed the arm and attachments from the previous post. So this morning we got together to do some testing on our …

Posted in Archived Posts, Trebuchet #2Tagged testing, trebuchet, video

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