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Re: 2009 ThunderChicken Robot

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Originally Posted by lukevanoort View Post
Why? It's not the most complex robot in the world, but it probably works really well. 217 had a traction control system running just 4 days after kickoff, so they probably have that perfected and a lot of drive time. The CIM-powered pickup is probably really fast and efficient. I don't know how accurate the dump is, but it's unlikely to jam. I predict they'll be driving (often literal) circles around their opponents collecting tons of balls really fast, and then use their tcs to quickly pin someone for a dump and go back to collecting.
I wasn't making any attacks at the bot. I was just saying that we've come to expect great things from the Thunder Chickens. I guess I expected that they would've come up with some other genius way of manipulating game pieces (2008's grabber, 2007's 8(?) linkage arm, or 06's turrenting shooter of awesome). I'm actually a bit more excited about this bot than most because it's so simple and because I know 217 would never put a bot on the field that wasn't capable of laying a smack down on their opponents... I just want to see how they do it...
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