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Originally Posted by Samk
care to elaborate on what this secret weapon was?  |
A vertical bar that extends down inside the perimeter. When balancing with three robots, 148 would hang off the edge. The "Stinger" as it's been dubbed would then extend downward to stabilize the bridge, then once the bridge levels it would be retracted. This way, three wide config. bots could balance. It removes the need to drive the robot to compensate for bridge wiggling, but only works with three even weighted robots.
It's genius and we are looking into how we can create our own.