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Originally Posted by Travis Covington

11 pistons... I will try to break it down in a fairly subtle manner. 2 for wings, 2 for center lift, 2 for rear lift, 2 for shifting , 1 for ball grabber, 2 for elev release.

Wings?!? You must be FLYING up to the bar. I have a fairly good idea of what the wings and shifters are, I think the rear lift either helps you turn or helps you get up the stair or lifts up the robot then sets it on the lip of the goal or mayeb a combination of these things. The center lift must lift the robot off the ground. I kind of figured one will be for a ball grabber. But I have no idea what the 2 pistons labled "elev relaease" are. Perhaps they bring an arm up to the height of the bar. I really want to see this thing sitting on the scale. With 10 20P gears (I assume) and 11 cylinders, and of course sprockets and chains for driving and linking for 4wd, and all the stuff actuated by these cylinders, I really don't know how you guys do it. I see couple "future Andy Bakers" here on these boards, guess who one of them is.

Perhaps you are only shifting either only the drills or only the chias, but I have a feeling it will be both. Perhaps there will be no other motors than the ones driving, that I see as being possible. But how will you have enough air for 11 cylinders? I know two are small for the shifters but still, 9 cylinders? We don't even have as much air as we'd like for our 1 cylinder.

EDIT: I hope you and I will meet up at Chatsworth and have a long discussion about your marvel of a machine.