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Re: Collecting 10 Pt. Balls?

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Originally Posted by rforystek
I've been looking at wildstangs robot and wondering if those round things on top were meant to pick up the 10 pt ball. They might have had that features, but decided it wasn't worth it. I may be completely wrong though.
I think it's mechanically possible for our robot to pick the 10pt ball up, and I believe we could write up an autonomous program that would do it reliably, but the robot would have to drive slow since we get the best accuracy when we go slow.

Hopefully we'll have programs at nationals that do something besides sit around for the remaining 12 secs after we've knocked the ball off. We have some cool ones that ignore the ball altogether, but they no longer fit our strategy and we've never run them in competition.