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Unread 24-02-2014, 18:23
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Re: Baxter Bomb Squad 2014 ~ Nighthawk

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Originally Posted by holygrail View Post
Does your pickup mechanism have to pick up and pass on the ground, or can you accept a pass directly from another robot by pulling the arm up and running the rollers in?
If the ball is above the bumper, we shouldn't have an issue accepting it directly from another robot.

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Originally Posted by holygrail View Post
It appears there are a couple of bars on your shooter that stick up, but they seem to flex when the ball enters the robot in the video. Would those bars or the intake dimensions prevent you from taking a bumper to bumper pass?
Like JTN said, those "fingers" rotate down as the ball is pulled in, so they won't get in the way. The intake is narrower than the ball, so it would need some pushing from the passing robot and pulling in with our beater bar to make it work. The details probably lie in how well the robots mate up.