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Re: Team Update 1 Posted

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
The two boilers are giant fuel hoppers and the GDC has designed a system to remove ALL fuels from these hoppers at a rate of 5 per second. In a controlled enough fashion to accurately count them. I guarantee you there are teams that would LOVE to have details of this design so they can iterate on it and shave weeks off their design time.

Count me as one of those people that wants to know how FIRST's system works so I can copy it . Of course, the boilers have a rather large footprint, and there's no guarantee that it can be effectively scaled down within a robot.
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