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FRC #2733 (The Pigmice)
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Re: Robot overview Team 2733

Here is the post that I promised on the competition accuracy of the design. In competition, it is accurate if you can get it to shoot. Our surgical tubing conveyor belt proved unreliable, so for our next regional we are switching to timing belts. Extensive tests in the shop this week showed that they are very reliable.
Game piece acquisition is also going to be tweaked by changing the motion that deploys the box, hopefully increasing the reliability.

All in all it was ok, we seeded 8th after having some encoder problems in two matches. Fortunately, our practice robot will allow us to tweak this and perfect it.

We hope that the improvements that we are making will allow us to be much more competitive at the Spokane regional.
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