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Unread 07-02-2011, 00:28
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Re: Team 3637 Fully Functional Robot with Scissor Lift and Arm - Video and Pics

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Originally Posted by sdcantrell56 View Post
Honestly you might want to think about how fast you want to be able to lift to score. Any time wasted waiting for the lift to reach full height will contribute to less tubes scored. Just as a metric to go by, our team has chosen to have a lift reach full height in under ~1.5 seconds. With sensors well implemented and the programming to control it, it would be very beneficial to scoring quicker
Yes, but if you can get it to the top in transfer from the feeder slot to the pegs (which i think we will be able to do) we won't lose efficiency in that way.
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