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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.
The device to lower the cheval de frise is a bag motor mounted to a versa planetary at 81:1. We didn't have a chance to tune the shooter for that range, but I suspect that we could shoot from the outer works. It currently is set up for shooting from the alignment line.