[JohnHorton]

As far as deployment goes, I sketched up a rough diagram of a deployment tray that can be slid out to the pole. It has a 2"x6" rectangular notch cut into a 12" square plate to put the minibot into position around the pole, as well as three 1/2" holes drilled into the plate (the front two 2" in from the front and 1" away from the notch to each side, the third 5" from the front and 1" to the left side of the notch) that can be used to align the minibot for deployment.

Low res image attached, and the high res scan is in the attached zip if you're curious.