@daijohns adding more CW requires re-tuning the rope length and the piviot point of the arm. simply adding more weight would make the arm fall too fast and the ball would take a really high trajectory (or slam into the ground depending on how the release works). this looks really good the way it is. if anything just reduce the MOI of the arm. steal some carbon fiber from the areospace lab, theyll just waste it anyway!!! lol Great job tho!
you know its lubbock because you can hear the wind the entire time
@daijohns adding more CW requires re-tuning the rope length and the piviot point of the arm. simply adding more weight would make the arm fall too fast and the ball would take a really high trajectory (or slam into the ground depending on how the release works). this looks really good the way it is. if anything just reduce the MOI of the arm. steal some carbon fiber from the areospace lab, theyll just waste it anyway!!! lol Great job tho!
do you guys have the plans for the floating arm trebuchet? I need some for a physics project.
@Terminator714 could it "hunk" a gallon jug of water further than that? Of course it all depends on your projectile
@Midnighter169 We would have if we had had more weights to add. And if we hadn't launched stuff until the weight bar bent and the rollers broke.
@XxxJcommonsxxX No plans. We just built it by looking at another CZcams video and changing things on the fly. Not the best engineering process.
thats cool i did this for a texas competition and did pretty good but not the falling arm one
im completely sure that it can handle a much heavier counter weight you should try it
@daijohns nah thats the best engineering process! what i do for almost everything i build
Did you suspend the counterweight by locking the floating arm in place?
needs more arm movement you should start it higher up
This gives me a fun idea.
Dude -- you need to scale this up. Fling some boulders =D
@1chrisdaman1 The release mechanism was the hardest part to get right (and you can see that we didn't quite get it right).
@daijohns oh well thats unfortunate sorry you know when something i make breaks it almost feels like a friend has died
Leave the wheels on it will give it a better range
man you need way more weight! i have like 220lb on a machine thats not even as strongly built as yours, and mine could handle even more than that.
cool
nice,sweet epic and all the other positive words i know! but it wold shoot further if you channge the reallisings moment
you should put more weight it will go futher
needs more weight