Friday, May 25, 2007

Addendum I

One of many bits that did not make it into the book was the impulse lever. It has elements of both the hinged launcher and impulse launcher. The design was originally created by 0rjan in his contest solution "ARFC_A_VI_EsseluktII.OrjanF-5678-Patheticon.lvl", and later optimized by Dudiobugtron in his contest solution "ARFC_A_XII_BOOM_II.dudiobugtron-Patheticon_optimised.lvl" (shown below):


The overall cost of such a launcher is drastically lower than rubber with tension. It reminds me of circus acrobats jumping up and down on seesaw platforms.

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