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Re: Auto Powerhouse?

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
Full loop back to the robot instead of loop at the end? Hold one end, winch the other, drop the held end after you've gotten the containers, winch in the rest. It's a one trick pony, but I have difficulty believing any 3 container winch system would be reusable anyways.
Clearly teams will just go fishing for containers instead. It shouldn't be that hard to cast into the noodle hole, right?

Seriously though I'm looking forward to seeing the solutions teams find to this problem. I'm guessing we will see some clever solutions including the return of tape measures on FRC robots.
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