Concept: XL Tracking Ball Launcher

This is a larger version of the tracking ball launcher. it uses the XL ball seen in the Mindstorms NXT 1.0 set and the current 51515 set. 

Similarly to the standard tracking ball launcher, it uses the IR sensor to track the remote, but this time the ball is larger and the EV3 can be set to other control modes using the Color Sensor.

Red sets it to the standard track and fire mode.

Green is Safe mode, where it won't track or fire.

Yellow is Manual mode, where the EV3 buttons are used to control the launcher and the touch sensor is used to fire.

Blue ends the program.

As a busy college student, I didn't have time to build the whole thing, so this is being left as a crudely illustrated concept with a few renders of the launcher mechanism itself.