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Re: Team 254 Presents: Skyfire

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Originally Posted by Siri View Post
How useful are these (on 1114 or 254)? Are they actually pulling up their alliance partner? Or is it primarily a way to stay together/not tip off opposite ends of the bridge? (Or something else?)
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but, I believe, at least in the case of 1114's, it makes double balancing much, much easier. If you look at how it's used it essentially allows one robot to do all of the balancing work versus having two independently moving machines.
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