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Re: Inspiration, Ideation & Copying

Our launcher was heavily inspired by a 2008 robot we saw on Kickoff, and the roller intake by Bomb Squad's 2008 bot. Even then, the launcher took at least a week of prototyping to get working, despite seeing several videos of pneumatic catapults showing it could work.

True originality is hard to find, but even "copying" isn't always easy.
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