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Originally Posted by Madison
It's been a challenge for our experienced team. The forces present in a mechanism that can score the ball from >20' are tremendous (and a little bit terrifying).
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I can't agree more. I've warned the students a 1000 times during the prototyping process how dangerous this can be. And that a robot w/o bumpers can shatter their ankles!
We were lucky enough to get picked by Aren Hill's (now an engineer at IFI and on JVN's Ri3D team) team in 2008 at the Colorado Regional. So we were familiar with the "choo-choo" cam and decided to use it as we were walking out of the kickoff presentation. Still it is a challenging effort!