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Re: Team 931 Minibots!

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
That's moderately insane and really pushing the theoretical limit of those motors. So that's impressive. I'll go out on a limb and guess that deployment is a pretty major challenge for that minibot, though. I have a feeling that it's not tolerant of too much tweaking or misalignment when it's being deployed.
This design is actually one of the easiest in terms of deployment because the magnets allow you to be a little off and if you do it right you do not need any moving parts to release it. The only complex part is putting it out there but thats the problem with every minibot deployment.
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