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Re: Propulsion that does not involve driving wheels

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Originally Posted by dtengineering View Post
In '06 we were contemplating a robot with fans that would sit underneath the goal and attempt to blow the poof balls away. The poof had a bit too much mass, but in this application.... it will be interesting to see how much air movement is required to deflect an orbit ball.
We tried this in 2006 as well, with results that weren't quite good enough to implement.