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Why stop at three big balls?

Posted by Alan Federman at 03/26/2001 4:40 PM EST


Engineer on team #255, Odyssey, from Foothill HS, San Jose and NASA.


In Reply to: What about scoring 3 large balls??
Posted by Tom S. on 03/26/2001 4:03 PM EST:



The problem is how do you hold two goals balanced and have more than 2 big balls. Early on in our strategy sessions we analysed the possibilty of holding 2 goals
horizontally and loading 3 or 4 big balls across - but
there just is no way that a 130 lb robot can be built to hold em any way except vertical and move/balance em. I suppose it would be possible to build a verticle goal transporter who could do this and stay on the bridge - but you would need at least two fast big ball handlers that could get 3 or four balls loaded super-quick. I think that Darwin is working here - if it could be done someone would have done it already.


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