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Originally Posted by Don Wright
First...since I've received several PM's concerning our "illegal" mini-bot deployment mechanism and what we "tried to get away with this year"... Here's a quick video of it deploying at the end of one of our matches. The item in question was since that the 4-bar is slightly traveling in an upward motion when the mini-bot hits the pole, it is contributing to the upward motion of the mini-bot which is illegal... You be the judge, but we promptly removed it after it was brought to our attention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5hmtndWAs8 |
Add four more bars and turn it into a
Peaucellier-Lipkin straight-line linkage.