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I dunno, a real fast robot in skilled hands can (we hope) compete with some fancier robots.

I mean, we lack resources to build a stacking mechanism, so we had to go pusher.

To spice things up and give us an edge over the other rookie teams in the area (all but two of them are rookies, as i recall) we are doing four motor four wheel drive, with a really large pushing surface. We will probably not be able to outpush other veteran team's robots, but we hope to be able to outmanuever them. You can't save your stack if we can get past you.

Also, 130 lbs going 7 m/s is lots of momentum. If we hit you full speed we can probably move you quite a bit . . . .

We are building our frame stand severe shocks - what if we hit the rap at full speed? *CRUNCH*

(edit - we have enough push to accelerate up the ramp at a decent rate)
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