[beiju]

I really like this idea, and as a close-to-rookie team member myself, I’d love to be able to use this standard to help the alliance.

For stability during the match, I prefer maclaren’s simple tab-and-pin rather than a potentially unstable tray. However I can imagine that slowing or even stopping the minibot if the deployment isn’t aligned properly. I propose the minibot have a C-channel mounted on the side, with the opening facing downward. Hostbots can then have a slot that the outermost side of the C-channel slides into, and it shouldn’t matter where it stores them during play or how it deploys them. The compromise with this is that not all minibots could be modified at the competition to be compatible.

For activating the minibot, a pole sensor seems by far the easiest choice in terms of compatibility. It also limits the hostbot’s duties to simply positioning the minibot.

I hope my idea is easy enough to follow, but if not, the graphic attached shows the hostbot in black and the minibot in blue.