The Confectionery Cannon. It's a face-tracking, auto-reloading marshmallow turret.

We used many of Olin's fabrication resources, including the mills, lathes, and laser cutters.

After sketching out a few initial designs, we designed the entire system in Solidworks. Most of the parts are acrylic, which we chose primarily for its cost and ease of laser-cutting. Acrylic isn't very strong and is quite brittle, but it's less than a third the cost of acetyl (Delrin). The three aluminium parts were made from shop scrap.

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