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Unread 09-02-2005, 18:55
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Re: Designs that would never work...

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Originally Posted by Katie Reynolds


hey we did that exact thing for 1403, and we capped the 2x ball too, not to mention we were good at it. Looking back at it i'm suprised not many teams did because if they put together a scoring matrix, they'd see it was the obvious choice


also another rejected design from this year on our team, you have this inflatable ballon, powered through pneumatics that went into the tetra, and inflated to lift it up.

another one rejected by the team, even though it wasn't as bad as the balloon. You have some muscle wire (it becomes stiff when you put an electrical current through it) and use that to grasp a tetra. It was feasable yet ineffecient because of the current draw it would require.

Last edited by Conor Ryan : 09-02-2005 at 19:02.