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Unread 04-02-2006, 12:58
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Re: Who is picking up from ground?

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Originally Posted by FTtyler
there are some more sacrifices. with a loader-type-thingie, you are now top heavy, you lose mobility, and you lose some time trying to wait for the balls to go into the top of the robot.
Not necessarily. Who says a loader has to bring the balls all the way to the top of the robot?

Our robot is going to have a picker-upper. The only thing we haven't got CADded yet is a way to channel balls to the center of the robot, where they are picked up.
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