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Originally Posted by New Lightning
Speaking from experience I think that if you could pull it off, you'd better to do it really well. Because if you do go this route and your only okay at picking them up, then you have spent much time and effort into developing a mechanism that may or may not win you any awards or alliance selections. I personally don't think that the suction cups would be able to handle the weight of very many totes, or get simply bumped around enough while driving, to maintain suction. Just like in a car with a GPS system, if you hit a hard bump or swerve out of the way, or maybe even turn to sharply, you will lose the suction and then all your totes fall. But if you could do it well it would be impressive and memorable.
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This year more than most, every robot on an alliance must contribute to the scoring in some way in every match or will be written off come alliance selection time. Mercilessly test your prototype as soon as you can since you will not have the luxury of drawing on the experience of other teams. After you are done trying to make it fail in every way possible, have someone else try to make it fail. If it still is reliable, you have a great way to pick up the totes. If not, you hopefully have enough time to implement a different way to pick up totes.
Please note that I do hope that you succeed in this since it would be really cool to see an alternative way of playing the game.