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Originally Posted by Ms.G
Robatos Locos:
I was impressed at how your team got its manipulator working better as the competition went on. That was a really creative design with a lot of potential.
Stay purple,
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Thanks!
We actually prototyped our manipulator within 2 days of kickoff and found it worked very well for holding on to the ball. Final testing left us with some concerns because in certain configurations the cable would catch in our front wheels. Thus we added a cover which I thought made it look like a wilted flower, but the announcer called it an "umbrella like device". Problem was that it wouldn't slip over the ball well enough for us to grab hold. It still worked well enough to consistently remove all 4 balls from the rack almost every round. Finally, after I made the arm operator promise not to lower the grabber into the front of the robot, we removed it and restored full function.