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Re: [FTC]: 2014-2015 Game Manual Part 1 Now Online

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Originally Posted by Neutrinos6433 View Post
Are we sure a shifting gear box is legal? I would think it is a COTS with more than one degree of freedom. Only COTS with one degree of freedom are allowed. In a shifting gearbox, one degree of freedom is rotational and the other degree of freedom is translation
When I talked with the person that had been working with it, it was specifically designed for FTC. The goal of it was to make smaller of the shifter that 4251 had built this year. That's all I know.
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