How do you feel about a pumpkin chunkin simulator today? Earlier this week, I noticed the latest post on the MATLAB Community blog: Flying Pumpkins, Dancing Pumpkins. While Ned and Eric's post is about drawing pumpkins using MATLAB graphics, I thought it would be fun to put together a simulation of one of those Pumpkin Chunkin machines.In order to get some inspiration, I did a bit of research on MATLAB Central File Exchange and quickly found a submission from 2016 titled Design Oriented Trebuchet Model with SimMechanics, which turns out to be from a former colleague, James Allison.For today's post, I decided
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