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Re: Intake Ideas PLZ !!!!

Our launcher just "carries the ball", so we figured out how to hold it more securely while crossing the defenses. If your intake contacts both sides of the boulder as it brings it in, you may be able to do something like this: We have a photo range detector looking at our intake. While in intake mode we stop the intake wheels while the ball is wedged between the rollers and the back plate. We cross defenses with it wedged in there. When we're getting ready to shoot, we follow through on the intake and feed it into the launcher. Driver controls for this are still a work in progress.
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