Our prototyping is going well! Much of the day today was spent working on our straight shooter prototype, which yesterday was in such a sorry state that our lead mentor affectionately labeled it “a piece of crap”. However, after a hard day’s work, the prototype is now shooting reliably, accurately – and very, very fast!

The main difference seems to have been removing the second of the two belts we were using. Originally, we planned to have one belt on either side of the Frisbee track so we could control the spin, but that limited our shot distance to just a few feet.

The climber team also did great work on their prototype today. They have been developing a belt-based lifter with hooks to grab onto the gussets of the pyramid, and they have a prototype attached to our pyramid as of this writing!

Today also was a great day for the social media team – we started actively using our Twitter and Facebook pages (for content other than blog updates) and we released our first weekly video update! Let us know what you think!