Thread: Team Driven 1730's Robot- Starscream
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Re: Team Driven 1730's Robot- Starscream
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Originally Posted by Drivencrazy View Post
That is a mechanism that allows the robot to hang the front two wheels off the bridge in order to make space for our alliance partners. The mechanism is positioned just ahead of the CG so that we know how far we can hang off without tipping over. With this function we take up just over half of what we originally would.
We have an extremly similar device, but use 1x1 bar and traction material mounted on pnuematics.
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