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First we looked at the design we wanted to prototype first. Our main goals this meeting were to determine how our shooter would fit on the robot and determine the speed at which the ball would need to leave our shooter. We looked at a catapult design powered by pistons and possibly tension from surgical tubing. Since feeder said they needed ~20 inches in width for the robot frame, we worked on the assumption that the frame was 21*35 (perimeter 112). We talked with drivetrain for a while about the direction the wheels would face. We determined that the wheels should point forward (like a car) for stability which will be especially important due to the height of our robot. For the mathematics we used rough approximations of how high off the ground the ball would be released by the catapult. We placed this new math in the spreadsheet titled "MASTER Shooter Mathematics" in the shooter subteam folder. Based on the distance from the wall we can determine the velocity that the ball has to leave the catapult.

Finish mathematics calculations and start building the physical prototypes.

We are on schedule as long as we can get some proof of prototypes built tomorrow.