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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto
Allen,
Really cool bot, love what your team is doing with the open build/blog. Seems like a great learning experience for your team.
Whats the process for scoring the gear once in the gear holder?
Great work as always,
-Mike
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In our testing it hasn't been difficult to deliver the gear out of the intake by just reversing the roller, lowering the arm, and driving backwards once the spring has pierced the gear. We were hoping for a cleaner release but couldn't get the gemotry of our first system to a point we thought it would be robust enough for the whole season. We haven't tested this geometry on a rolling chassis yet and that will be one of the first things we do when parts come in next week.
I'd assume we will be iterating on the drop off portion all season to make it as fast as possible without compromising it's pickup speed and ability to securely hold the gear during high speed collisions.