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Originally Posted by mikegrundvig

Our design uses linear rods and bearings to guide the cylinders and fix the gripping "claws" into the right position and angle. At the last stage of our climb, the rods were hitting the box on the pyramid and preventing it from climbing to it's extent. So it was less a matter of rules and more a matter of physical interference driving our decision.

We were able to fix it last night but the CAD design has had to be extremely accurate in every detail and it's taking forever. The teacher over the team was worried enough about the progress that he has some of the team building a second robot that doesn't use this design and is just a "run and gun" bot with 10 pt climb which we got working and tested yesterday as well.

-Mike

We have a similar design and the box at the top is worrying me immensely. I don't want us to get to the top and then only get 20 points because our robot hits the box when we're an inch too low.

The GDC really thought through how to make the 30 point climb incredibly difficult.