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Re: Pneumatics sensors?

We did that for our 2003 robot.
The drive system was dependent upon having adequate pressure at all times, so the pneumatic arms were limited if the system thought too much air had been used.
Make sure you have a big obvious indicator to the drivers as to why mechanisms may stop working mid-match.

It worked quite well except for once when we drove under the bar with the arms too high and ripped off the fittings releasing all of our air with one whoosh...
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