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Re: [FTC]: Opinion on lifting robots
There's actually another thing I wanted to bring up.
I've talked to quite a few FTC teams planning on, like, a "claw" design for grabbing rings.
I'm sure some of you are aware of this, but I wanted to bring it up just in case.
Since the dispensers are something like 1 foot of PVC with rings on it, and you have a claw on the front of your robot, you either will only be able to reach the first 2 or 3 rings if the claw is basic.
In order to reach the rings deeper on the dispenser, we'd have to get creative. Either a claw that can move horizontally forward to reach them, or a claw that can grab the rings from the the dispenser on the side and somehow pull them to the front of the PVC and get them off - either way there's engineering to look at.
Another thing is I haven't taken too detailed a look at the schematics for the field, but on this note I'm assuming the dispenser height is something like 14", or < 18" at most, because that would prevent the robot from getting to the further end of the PVC due to the robot being the same height.
Thoughts?
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