I tried to get a video of them shooting, but I was never there in time.
They were simply sprinkler valve over-unders. But, they did load about 4-5 ping pong balls in each barrel, and the damn thing would blast air raid sirens and heavy metal while it was going off! On a side note, the right shoulder cannon's barrel was a bit skewed off to the right.
Those same guys
also had a homemade inkjet printer that printed 9 lines onto the ping pong balls! I got the guy interested in SpudFiles, and he gave me a card (as well as a few balls!).
Visit them at
www.therobotgroup.org as soon as you can. They seem to be a mainly Austin-based group. That might be good
or bad, depending on the level of cooperation we get with them. Who knows, they might end up being the guys to build the first prototypes of the ACS-1 to put on a new giant robot thing! But as far as I can tell, we are currently the most advanced air cannon group with any presence in Austin Texas.
And those fire spitting things weren't robots; they were pieces of metal artwork hooked up to blowers and a control panel, and there were so many propane tanks that I couldn't count them all. The big tall kind, too. They also used some kind of magic power. And the big white thing in the beginning is a giant fake snake carcass with a bike in the head, connected to a bunch of pedals and seats going down the rest of the thing. I tell ya, there was a lot of crazy stuff there.
