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Hot pocket shooter - the next step

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Saw your show on the controller with hot pockets. How about a controller with a pop corn shooter? Could be air powered to shoot one piece at a time in your mouth while playing. Could adjust the shooting rate with your foot or knee up to rapid fire. Could even shoot it to your friend sitting next to you.

  • If the velocity was set too high, that sounds like it would be pretty high risk as a choking hazard. However, it would be great to have a popcorn wars with your friends.

  • Given the fragility of popped corn, I'd say that anything with a constant high rotation speed would be out. Popcorn doesn't have a uniform shape or size. A tube may be out of the question. It sounds like the best bet would be to "fling" the popcorn. Pull!

     

    Fix your popcorn to funnel into a row. You may need some kind of agitator. You can set it up so an electric motor tightens a spring connected to an arm. When the spring is tight enough, the arm is released from it's catch. Sending the popcorn flying. Since the arm is rotating with the spring and the popcorn is gravity fed, it's self reloading. You may need a couple gears to translate the high speed of the motors into a slower motion with higher torque to fight against the tension of the spring.