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Re: Climbing Mechanism Ideas

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Originally Posted by ToddF View Post
Remember “Back to the Future”? If you put a 30 inch vertical hook on the back of your robot, and drove at full speed under the tower, the hook would catch on the lowest bar, and the robot would flip up high enough for you to catch the second bar. Then you release the lower bar hook and score 20 points. Unless the tower or the robot comes apart at impact…
That has come up, and It would be amazing to see. But I feel the "floor protector" would keep from that design from successfully working. Although I think you already came to that conclusion
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