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Re: Where to buy Balls?

welcome to the world of real engineering!

I think most teams got one of the right 13" balls in the kit - so no matter what other 13" balls you purchase, or end up with, make sure your ball collecting mechanisms are not hyper-dependant on the characteristics of the balls

I would say inflate what you got to 13" diameter, and use the one they came in the KOP as your golden sample. If your machine can work with the KOP ball, and with whatever other 13" balls you ended up with then you will have no problem at the events.

in fact, you will probablly do better than a team that had to fine tune and tweak their machine to get it to work exactly right with one type of ball only.

The balls at the events are going to get scuffed up, partially deflated - they wont all be exactly the same size or have the same flexibility

Plan for it!

Design your bot to be 'gracefull' not finicky :c)