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Re: Plans for hanging

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Originally Posted by Kims Robot View Post
Don't forget... the title of this thread & the poll is PLANS for Hanging, not "where will you hang in competition" The teams aren't claiming they CAN do it.. they are just telling you they PLAN to do it. I suspect this poll would be different if posted in two or three weeks.
Right-o. We *plan* on climbing -- building on our success in 2010 (but with lessons learned... evil set screws will not be our bane this year!) -- to 30 points and then dumping in four colored disks... And if it doesn't work, we'll have wasted an enormous amount of effort, energy, and money while settling for much less.

Which is why we have a shooter but no floor pickup. We figured out pretty quickly that we couldn't do it all, so we shot for three tasks:

Drive.
Shoot.
Climb to 30.

Our top priority in designing a climbing mechanism is to maintain stable contact with the pyramid at all times, so in case of a power failure or some such we just freeze in place and nothing... unduly exciting and gravity-related occurs.
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