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Re: pic: FRC254 -- Ball Collection Mechanism

It was sure an elegant and yet straight forward design. After looking at it, you start have that conversation with yourself, like "oh, why didn't we think of that", and "hmm, that's a sure simple way of mounting that part", and of course "painting and anodizing your robot?? Don't they have something better to do?" But seriously, I was shocked when I noticed they (254) use only one sensor (gyro) on the entire bot (at least when I saw it on Friday at PNW). I kept wondering why I could see their entire RC, they're weren't a bazillion of PWM's going into it!! I take it their program was fairly straight forward this year (just wondering)?

Note to self - stop spending 3 weeks getting our camera, 2 servos, 4 quad encoders, 2 current sensors, and gryo to work and just build a good working robot!! Strike that last comment - our team's programmer may read this

Congrats again to them on a great looking and functioning robot. They just keep raising the bar.
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