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Re: Climbing Mechanism Ideas

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Originally Posted by moogboy View Post
One of our mentors came up with a non-wheeled design. a 50 pound, 16x16x16 cube that would do nothing except climb to the third level. Really, you wouldn't even need drivers. Someone could take that idea of a non-wheeled robot and ask really nicely for other robots to give them the alliance colored frisbees and have a really simple dumping mechanism to get another 20 points.
That's true though. However, you'd better wait until after autonomous to do that. Just let your drivers press a button. Ta-da! But your robot is not pre-loaded with colored discs, so you'd have to find a way to put the colored discs inside your robot.
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