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Re: Team 2530 "Inconceivable" -- Rolling robot

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Originally Posted by CalTran View Post
I see belt driven meccanums, and a compressor. I'm intrigued as to what the compressor actuates, but if it follows the model of other teams, I would hazard a guess as to it being for some sort of bridge manipulation.
I'm also intrigued as to what the compressor will actuate.... Right now it actuates a bunch of "virtual components" that only exist inside the minds of some of the students, but they insist we need it so we went ahead and mounted it and got it wired into the controls while we were working on that part of the robot. There currently are no storage tanks, tubing, valves, or actuators on the robot.

I think it will have something to do with controlling the ball feed to the shooter.

If nothing else, with 45 pounds to play with at this point, it's good ballast
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