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Re: pic: FRC525 2014 Robot Render

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Originally Posted by Michael Yeh View Post
Looks great! Are those claw-shaped things in the back a second pickup mechanism or are they for catching?
Yes. It started out as two different groups of students working on concepts. I was a bit skeptical that the students could get this concept working because you can't reverse the rollers and have the ball land in the flipper. By accident they rotated the arms apart while prototyping and the ball landed in the flipper. So that's what we did - the two arms are independently controlled and stay in sync until it's time to drop the ball then they separate and the ball drops in. Turns out that it works well for our 2 ball autonomous mode also.
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