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Re: [FTC]: Technical Question

My team used a claw in our robot, but we built it ourselves. It worked pretty well, we used some rubber for gripping. I actually never heard about the VexPlorer arm/claw until a couple of months ago. I learned yesterday at NYC/discovering team 546 on youtube that for what we wanted to do, it was more effective to design a ring stacking system, but in the midst of the competition, we learned that our robot was very good at controlling the hexes, which helped us greatly in the matches, especially when we realized who our best driver was.

From what I have seen, the vexplorer claw looks too big to take control of the hexes and not effective in grabbing pvc rings. But yea, to each his own. It probably just hurts the team on the innovate award.
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