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Re: Team Update #1
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Originally Posted by Chris Hibner View Post
I agree on the launched part, but why not let me wind some surgical tube around a pulley and let that drive the wheels up the pole? Restricting everyone to the same components makes this silly.

There are ways to re-write the rule to eliminate launching:

Ex: During deployment, the minibot must leave contact with the hostbost with a maximum vertical component of velocity of 0 m/s.
This is the first design that our team thought of.

Based on the initial rules, we sort of inferred that the intent was that the MINIBOT was self-propelled, but not necessarily battery powered!