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Re: pic: New low bar flaps

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Originally Posted by Sunshine View Post
Watching the live feeds, it looks like individual flaps can enter the robot? Can anyone at an event verify this?
Can confirm that flaps can fall inside robots, we actually had to e-stop our robot on the low bar because of a combination of this and some partial automation. We mistakenly dropped our arm using "intake" instead of just lowering the arm, and a flap falling inside the robot triggered the beam break to make the arm and shooter both unfold up while we were halfway through. Would never have been an issue with the old flap.

As a quick fix, these worked pretty well. The fact that flaps can fall inside seemed to be the biggest functional difference, the new physics did not seem to be to much of an issue for most of the teams, and beyond a habit adjustment we did not need to make major changes. That being said, a robot with similar design but different quirks to the code could have a rough time with this.
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