During class today, we continued to think about how we could possibly make this circuit. After figuring out roughly how we are going to make the buzzer turn on and off (through the use of magnets and a reed switch) we decided to look at how to actually make the catapult launch. We looked at existing examples as inspiration, with one in the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPomwRV0Fyc
In the above link, it shows a catapult that has been made out of cardboard, and uses a breadboard, arduino, and a servo to launch the catapult. This is most likely the approach we are going to take in our design, as it would be an effective way of shooting the ball across the room. We will look to have it so as the ball is placed back onto the catapult, the buzzer turns off (have the reed switch below the catapult to do so).
We will continue to research into different ways that we could create this circuit. By next week, we will look to have prototyped a catapult that works, so that we have a proof of concept. We are also going to look at creating a draft storyboard to present in class.
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