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Originally Posted by carpedav000
If you want experience with a lot of these, I would suggest building something Octocanum. As for the ball element, anything could happen (although I would recommend entraption stars or roller intakes)
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Octocanum was our offseason project last year - it's a great challenge, and I'd recommend it. A few caveats: having access to sheet metal fabrication resources makes life easier (though it isn't impossible without them), and it's really easy to fall into the mindset of 'oh, we prototyped it and everything, so we should definitely run it on the competition bot' even when it's not necessarily the best option. We did that this year and ended up 'de-octocanum-ing' in St. Louis because we just didn't need the traction wheels.