Since 2011, MARS has built its practice "beta" robot slightly ahead of schedule of the construction of its competition "alpha" robot (allowing us to identify issues and fix them before construction the alpha robot). This year's beta robot is taking shape and is (almost) ready for a weekend of testing and improvement!
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Some Details:
-Dropped center 6WD, 2-speed transmission geared for 5ft/s and 17ft/s.
-2 wheel linear shooter.
-360 degree rotating and tilting turret.
-Load disks from feeder station, YES.
-Floor pickup, YES.
-Fit under pyramid, YES.
-Level 1 hang, YES.
-Level 2 hang, HOPEFULLY (it's designed but we won't know for sure until we do some more testing
).
Good luck to everyone!!