Well, the launching is over and we are.....not the winner. Absolutely ridiculous. I mean, if you start a competition and are in charge of it, you think you could rig it so you win it. Of course that is not the point of the Launch. I wanted it to be a straight up competition and it was. The sad truth is that we didn't kow our machine well enough. After reviewing the footage post-event I realized that our launch angle was too low. We were releasing at about a 30-35 degree angle, not the 45 degrees that we wanted. I will be watching this very closely at Punkin Chunkin in two weeks. I plan on bringing all of my technology to bear on this event. I will have the slow motion video camera, the mobile broadband enabled laptop and possibly an accelerometer attached to the throwing arm to determine if that throw was more forceful than the previous.
I know that I said I would blog live from the event (sorry Joe) but I was too busy running the event and running the machine to even think of blogging. Hopefully things won't be so hectic at Punkin Chunkin. I will certainly keep everyone up to date on our progress. See you November 6th-8th.
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