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questions how will kicker release? how will kicker pull back? how can we make the catapult work? does the psi of the ball matter? integration?

Today we tried to test the piston catapult after we moved the pistons around and the entire structure broke twice. We also continued building the full scale kicker. We had a meeting with Mike and discussed critical questions (see other notes) and we have set out goals that will define which shooter we use. After that we rebuilt the old kicker for testing purposes. Our tests with the ball underinflated (2in compression by kavi arms), with the shooter a few inches closer to the goal, it shoots in the goal. It also reliably shoots in the goal when the ball is sufficiently inflated.

pistonpult is not working at all. But kicker release/winch is sketchy.

finish testing and possibly discuss winch designs.

we are still on schedule.