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Re: paper: GUS Team 228's 2011 Robot CAD Assembly

Also, here's a photo of new ramp deployment mechanism (inspired by 190's) we had in STL:



We never modeled this version of the deployment or Minibot in SolidWorks. While we had much earlier designs for both modeled, the constant minor revisions and iterations of these mechanism meant they were literally in perpetual prototyping stage. By the time we were satisfied with the performance of both, we just took them apart, painted them, and brought them to Championships. (Too bad a surface mount capacitor partially broke off inside our DLink radio which caused our weird control issues in the second half of our matches there )

We could have redesigned the deployment to be much lighter, but we didn't really need the weight savings as we were almost 7 lbs under at WPI Regional.
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