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November Update

A project log for Robotic Table Tennis Ball Machine

This project will be able to give the receiver all possible types of spin and shoot accurately at any part of the table.

kieran-beaumontKieran Beaumont 12/10/2017 at 18:440 Comments

For this month I was working on finalizing all the materials that I needed to purchase. I decided on the power supply and the microcontroller that I would be using. I also decided on the tubing I will be using to transport the balls from the bucket to the shooter. This was challenging as I was unable to find a relativley cheap but highly flexible tube that was just large enough to fit a ping pong ball through. I will be using a wider diameter (~2 inches) and snipping down the length of the tube then zip tying it to be just the right size. I also ordered the chains for the mechanism and kept editing the CAD file to make some further adjustments for rigidity.

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