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Unread 11-03-2012, 00:30
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Re: Sandwich Bot

Since it's related, I'll go ahead and post an idea I had here, I'm not sure if it's been done already.

We know from the piggy-back bots that you can intrude into your alliance partners' frame perimeters when you're on the bridge, so make a robot that "sandwiches" in the middle like this, but have drop-down catches that grab onto both other robots, preventing the end robots from falling off. This would require some decent pre-meditated coordination with alliance partners to ensure proper attachment points, but it seems like it could be useful in elims.

We tried to implement this idea over lunch on Saturday at the Pittsburgh Regional but ran out of time. If one thought ahead and was able to spend more than the hour that we had, though, it seems entirely do-able.
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