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A beautiful robot and a real monster at PNW. You were terrifying to play against and I really wish we had a match with you guys. I look forward to seeing you in St. Louis!

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That looks to perfect, pshhh, it must be fake, must be fake...

psh.. ;)

Awesome clean looking robot!

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That's a very cool use of VexPro traction wheels-- any chance you could tell us how that rather unique usage came about?

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This is a great looking robot and they did very well at the PNW Champs, including a well deserved Industrial Design award. I had a look at their robot in the pits and asked about the constant force springs. The student I was talking to said they prototyped several different options to determine how much force was required, and then ordered the constant force springs "because they were free".

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There really wasn't much to them coming together. We wanted something circular so we could pull at a fixed point, and we had a couple of unused VEXpro wheels laying around that seemed to fit quite well. Plus, they matched the rest of our color scheme.

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Thank you for the compliments. We didn't however use the constant force springs just because they were free, but rather took them being free as an added bonus.

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Great robot and great team, it was a pleasure to work with you at Eastern Washington. If our robot hadn't broken I think we could've taken it to the finals at least.

Good luck at champs, keep rocking the killer defense!