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Unread 09-01-2011, 21:40
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Re: Minibot Standardization (FRC 2011: Logomotion)

on the thought track of the Tetrix stuff, there has to be some sort of light sensor available to use on the minibots, so if you made something that could easily be put onto other robots, be contained in its own 1 foot cube, and be able to understand when the base of the poles are blinking and when they go to the solid color. couldn't it launch itself and find the pole provided your teammate drove relatively close to the base?

its kind of like making a FLL robot inside of a FRC bot...
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