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Originally Posted by ksafin
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.
Thoughts?
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It's going to be interesting, I think a lot of teams will have something that changes orientation. I'm working on something now that doesn't have to but we will see how it goes.
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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.
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Yeah its close, but on the field at our kickoff it appeared as if you wouldn't be able to do that without some kind of moving system. Its going to be interesting how teams get around this year. Very difficult to play defense.
- Andrew