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Re: Design Challenge: Baton

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Originally Posted by RbtGal1351
Please continue with all the ideas, but a note if FIRST actually uses batons as a scoring object, it's unlikely they will be small enough to fit inside your robot (because of size requirements). So there goes the "driving-over-the-batons" idea. Unless you have an expandable chassis...
Did you see HOT's bot? There is a lot space if you design to fall over at the begining of a match. I doubt the batons will be 60 inches long. If they are, an open ended toothpick thing like a keyed shaft and a expandable storage tank is all you need. An expandable chassis is sort of overkill, but not as hard as it sounds. A few pneumatic cylinders, maybe some telescoping stuff, a omni drive, and you're golden. Length and width adjustable, although you'd need a lot of slack in the wiring.
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