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Re: Climber legality and safety.

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Originally Posted by CalTran View Post
Preferably some sort of hard lock to (like a pin) to keep it from going when you're not on the field or intentionally testing it somewhere
Kinda like the safety locks team had on their catapults in 2014 or on their can grabbers in 2015.
There is a distinct difference between many this climber and many of the catapults/can grabbers: this mechanism required motors to put power into the mechanism to make it move whereas many of the catapults and can grabbers required power to keep them from moving. When the robot isn't on, a spring loaded mechanism is a lot scarier than a motor powered one. A pin might still be a good idea, but it would only be useful when you want to test one mechanism on the robot and not worry about the climber starting up. You can effectively do the same thing in software by making the driver press two buttons to start the climber instead of one button that could get pressed by accident.
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