[EricH]

Originally Posted by farmersvilleRob

Well we were thinking of leaving a lot of slack in the wire and either having the robot pre -wind backwards or after autonomous (our team is heavy programming) we would let it reverse while it it moving which isn't that big a problem. As for damaging wires, we were going to at least hook the servo cable extenders at the weak points just in case it somehow gets out of hand then the break happens where it is designed to break.

We looked through the rules and it says that the actuators can't be changed under x, x and x, but we might pose a question to the GDC because it says in the blue box about it being a rule so teams can't get more power, but ours is just for functionality.

So it's just a back and forth launch? If it isn't, see slipring. It's more durable than a lot of slack, and eliminates any need for slack beyond what's need to plug in.

What I meant by linkage change was something like a helicopter uses for control--I believe it's called a flybar or something like that. You can do whatever you need to to the output of any non-integral gearbox. (See [R49-A])