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Originally Posted by Charger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JScN8XKEF-s
here is my old team's offseason robot. They used cylinders connected to mini cim and cimple box via chain. and I remember robots using cylinders in 2014 game such as cheesy poofs 
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??????????? The only way I could make sense of your earlier post was if you were using "tubes" that were bigger and softer than a 6" wheel; what you were talking about was neither; smaller than most wheels and not apparently grippier. You certainly wouldn't want to run those off of a PG71, or even a PG27.
Continuing with the rollers yes, we did horizontal rollers with belts on our 2012 Rebound Rumble robot. In that case, we were using the belt run as our "storage area" for up to (IIRC) four balls. As such, we wanted the rollers to run slowly. The balls were soft enough that we could drive over them even without the rollers turning. Once they were trapped between the rollers and a backing sheet of plastic, we turned on the rollers to do the pickup. We powered those rollers with a window motor; It took about two or three seconds for a ball to make it from the floor all the way up to the trigger mechanism. But I didn't think of those as intakes so much as pickups; perhaps too subtle a distinction.