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Re: Team 2470 teaser!

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
It's a little late for that... (Though he's right unless you're doing something freaky / interesting we can't see here)

How do you guys deal with turning scrub? How about kicking? Don't get too good, or you guys won't be around for the second round of the draft this year .
Well we have a kicker in the front that uses a pivot point and surgical tubing to fire. We have tested it to go over into at least the quadrant next to us, but we have not tested it on a full sized field yet. We use a pneumatic piston to reload it into a gate latch, then we use a motor to open and close the gate latch. In case our motor breaks down, or the system breaks, we also have a much smaller pneumatics piston to open and close the latch. Our second kicker placed on the opposite side of the first kicker, kicks a ball just far enough to score it into a goal from the far side of a quadrant, it also serves as a pusher. The second kicker is just a Pneumatics Piston with a special attachment on the end. What exactly do you mean by "How do you guys deal with turning scrub?" I am not quite sure I understand what you are saying? And I think we will still be around for the second draft, unless the new rules on the qualification points somehow boost us, to me at least it seems the new rules base the game more on luck.
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