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Unread 14-01-2016, 00:11
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Re: 'Snow Problem 2015 - Stronghold

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Originally Posted by CalTran View Post
That is a sick little bot you made! Two questions; I take it this captures a tower by parking on the Batter, and any chance of there being more videos of it interacting with the Cheval? There was a brief clip of it in the video but I'm interested in which mechanism you actually lowered the "ramps" with.
We capture by parking, correct. We faced both time and space constraint issues with attempting to climb while still fitting under the low bar, which was deemed our number one priority.

We have an `L` mounted to a motor on the back of the robot which pins down one of the pieces of the Cheval.
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Last edited by rzoeller : 14-01-2016 at 00:12. Reason: Added Cheval explanation