Today was primarily a day for programmers. As today was the VEX Robotics Regional Competition in Sahuarita, a solid chunk of the team was missing (6 members and 1 mentor), and another two gone for the weekend. This left one of the mentors to work with the mass of programmers (almost everyone at today's meeting), and the other to work with the couple mechanical kids left. As the elastic puncher was not yet eliminated from the jaws idea, that is what was worked on today, just using a PVC pipe, a 2' long piece of 2"x4", and lots of elastic tubing. The puncher worked very similarly to a bow and arrow, but with the arrow being larger and attached to the bow. This means when the bow/surgical tubing was pulled back, the puncher was "loaded" and ready to shoot, and the surgical tubing would be let go, thrusting the PVC pipe forward, punching the ball.
By the end of the day, the puncher was finished and tested, but was considerably weaker than the catapults.
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