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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: OT: Repeatably lobbing "projectiles"
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:35:59 +0100
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On 11/22/24 23:12, Don Y wrote:
> On 11/22/2024 1:21 PM, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
>>> But, to do so completely under automation, without any human
>>> intervention.
>>
>> You may want to look at marble machines on youtube. This one
>> seems much like what you're asking for.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AZMmg0qq4A
> 
> While it appears to be repeatable, it is recycling the
> same projectile.  And, the same target distance (which
> falls considerably short of the 20 ft mentioned in my post)
> I.e., one would be surprised if it DIDN'T recapture the
> projectile on each execution.

Surely those are issues within range of your abilities?
You're free to scale and reconfigure the thing. If you
want an exact solution, at least specify your exact
requirements. Otherwise we'll think you're here just to
argue. You know how to state exact specs, don't you?

Jeroen Belleman