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Re: No Pneumatics?

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Originally Posted by Gregor View Post
I see 3 metal ones on this picture.
We ended up actually buying 7 plastic air tanks that were about the same size as those ones and have used them for the last couple of years. I know it sounds like a lot but the robot was really simple compared to having a lot of motors. Mainly there was only four drive motors and 6 solenoids. Especially programming for teleop took like 20 mins which was very easy
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