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Originally Posted by Leav
not sure what you mean by this, since you later mention thinking about ideas... just FYI: using mechanisms from old robots is not allowed. (some stuff is allowed, but I won't interpert the rules here.)
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Our 07 bot manipulates tubes, similar to this year's game pieces. We can look at what it did to score, and see how well it works for the new game pieces (which are very similar to the 07 tube).
We wouldn't use it, just look at how it works and see if we can use the stuff we learned back then again now.
That robot's arm is built of .030 aluminum tube, which is very thin. Analysis said it was very close to breaking, and after about 10 hours of play time it did. We repaired it, but it is still very, very close to catastrophic failure.