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Re: A salute to simplicity
On our robot we have a belt drive kind of like an elevator to bring up the balls when we drive over them placing them into the hopper. It seems to work very well. Then the elevator door slides open and then we reverse the motors and spit them out. During Auto mode we have the balls in the hopper and all we do is drive straight forward and reverse the belts to spit out the balls, 10 balls. If need be we zoom across the floor to stop another robot from scoring in auto mode. Many robot have tried to defend against us in auto mode to stop us from going to the side goal but we are so fast that they can't get there in time. Here is a pic of our robot. It's a bit stretched out and an older picture before ship day but you can see what I'm talking about. It still looks the same though:
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