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Smile Re: Minibot climb rate

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Originally Posted by mechE131 View Post
I would reccomend someone go and look back at their statics, dynamics, mechatronics and material science textbooks;
This problem is a perfect example of one of the more selfish reasons I enjoy being a mentor on an FRC team: I have a reason to learn about other branches of Engineering outside of my original EE/ECE/CS training.

[My original back-of-the-envelope calculations gave a time of 8s with one motor, but I can now see how some of my initial assumptions were flawed.]