Pumpkin Putter
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In 2000 we decided to take a two prong attack to our siege craft. We simultaneously started building both a gigantic Ballista, and a centripetal human powered machine. Mista Ballista was our long term plan and the centripetal machine was used in the 2000 Punkin Chunk and made more appearances in 2001, 2004, and 2005. For more on engineering a centripetal catapult, see the Centripetal engineering page.
In 2000 we built and tested the machine. Our drive system and trigger were a bit flakey, but we threw almost 100 feet. Huzzah!
In 2001 we enhanced the machine with a new throwing pouch and trigger. We also added a cool new bike platform.
In 2004 we made enhancements that allowed simplified things to great
effect at the 2004 Punkin Chunk.
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In 2000 we decided to take a two prong attack to our siege craft. We
simultaneously started building both the gigantic Mista Ballista, and
a centripetal human powered machine. The centripetal machine was used
in the 2000 punkin chunk and the ballista will be our long term
machine.
We built the Pumpkin Putter in 2000.
After critical failure during last years 2000 punkin chunk
we decided that the putter needed an upgrade for the 2001 punkin chunk. This
page describes our upgrade path. Our longer term goal is to build
Mista Ballista, using the putter as
an interim machine.