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Re: Designing a climbing mechanism for 2013... a humbling experience

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
I don't see thirty point hangers being added on mid season. To design them, you basically have to integrate it into every aspect of your robot design. It's one of the most challenging design problems in years.

I think it's more likely that you see teams show up to events as pure hangers and then add on frisbee mechanisms over time rather than the other way around. Though I do expect to see a lot of copied 10 point gravity hangers.
Our team realized this right away, we designed a robot that does a 30 point climb and then dumps frisbees into the top goal and every aspect of our robot is dependent on our climbing mechanism. If a team wanted to rig a 30 point climber midseason they would basically need to build a new robot.
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