Trebuchet Test Day

       I was very happy with test day, though it had a few minor problems, it went very well.  We started off going for the distance part of the challenge and with minimal angle of release adjustments we were able to get an average of 45m consistently.  The pouch worked great and the trigger worked well by releasing the pouch consistently while being a reasonable and safe distance away.

        After the distance trials we did some alterations and started working on the accuracy part of the challenge.  It went ok, but we had problems with the pouch not releasing the ball at these lower speeds.  We were able to fix it a bit but we still haven't completely solved that problem but we will work on that.  When the ball did release we would land about 1.m away from the target that was 15m away every time.  Overall i think it went great but we still need to work on the accuracy part a bit and we have to try to solve the pouch problems.