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Re: Team 2363 ball pickup prototype

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Originally Posted by Hoffer5236 View Post
I've found that two of the Bot in Three Days teams have some good examples of collectors that you could draw from for design.
Do not neglect to prototype your concepts. We learned some things that aren't so obvious just by looking at those designs.

One thing in particular to look for... not many of the RI3D robots demonstrated their ball pickup capability with legal bumpers installed. (This might have changed in the past couple days since I looked.)
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