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Re: Rotating Gears to Turn Rotors

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Originally Posted by MrForbes View Post
If you look carefully at the field drawings, you'll see that some of them need to be turned CW, and others CCW, to turn the rotors in the direction that will provide lift for your AIRSHIP. Pay attention!

Because we all know how great Archimedes screws are at generating lift...

This is speculation but from pictures of the field and intuition from past games I'm fairly confident that they are using a photo sensor to count the rotations of the gear from the spokes going past the sensor. If this were the case the direction of rotation would not matter.
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