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Re: Competitive Intakes

We had a ground intake that worked but never made it to competition. It was the classic flat flexy bottom plate with rollers and belts on top.

Our problem lay in moving the discs into our hopper. We had planned on a magazine that indexed upward (bottom loading). Once we realized that the indexer was too complex to fit in the area we had slated for it, we moved to a simplified top loader and that eliminated picking up under the bot.