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Re: Tetra Manipulators

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Originally Posted by Kelvin Ng
2) no name - a 2 pronged design that skewers the tetras, then expands (kinda like a pair of doors in an an entrance), eventually expanding to the bottom 2 corners of a tetra and holding them in place by pinning them against a barrier at the back of the grabber. hard to explain.
experiments with straws show that it is possible to skewer the tetras from a wide variety of angles, the tetras are held tight (do not move), and they are held from the bottom, so the arm doesnt have to be as long. my team doesnt like it, but i like it most.

Sounds nice.. just remember to try to test out the idea once you've got a scoring tetra built. The thing is pretty heavy, so .. make sure your design (if you end up using it) will still be able to work as it should in theory
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