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Re: Update 11
Here's an oldie:
in 1992, the KHS ScienceKats (old TechnoKats name) fabricated an on-board compressor* to store up high pressure for shooting a projectile to knock off the middle tennis ball (the highest point ball). There was no rule against this, until the event officials saw what this robot could do. They then deemed it unsafe for that year, and subsequently outlawed the making of your own compressor on FIRST robots.
* - This thing was about as big as a pack of cigarettes. It used a solenoid in the kit to drive a piston, I believe. The piston shoved air through a check valve, and into a tank.
AB
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