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Re: Forwards and Backwards Ball Pickup

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
I've been working on a similar design concept (a well packaged claw on an arm pivoting about the center of the robot). What ultimately drove me away from using two rollers and thus picking up on both sides wasn't the extra motor requirement. For this design I wanted the rollers to articulate out of the way to allow for a clean fire from some spring force. With passive forks on the bottom instead of rollers, actuation for this motion became a lot simpler and lighter. If you're thinking something else entirely, then carry on.
We do have a plan for our rollers to pivot out of the way for clean shot, so what you're thinking is what I'm thinking.. Even if a two roller back/front intake is not entirely practical, if my team can pull it off, and if it provides negligible problems and setbacks, i'd keep it for the fact that nobody else wanted to or couldn't do it, and therefore adding some cool factor.
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