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Re: Design Help for offseason bot

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Originally Posted by Tweedy399 View Post
One thing that my team and many others teams did was add an RC "stabilizer". This would grab the RC initially and follow it all the way to the top of the stack to secure the RC and the whole stack. This can even not be powered but just ride with the tote manipulator and the stack. We have found great success in this and I would highly recommend it.
Great recommendation.

I would also recommend an external ramp if you choose not to have one internally built as part of your robot.
We spent $10 buying 1/16" angle alumimun and a thin 1/32" acrylic sheet in making a simple ramp that worked wonders for us this year.
The same spectra cord used for our elevator, we used as our tether and it never got tangled in our wheels for 3 events and counting.
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