Untested Conveyor Claw Design

[Bryany]

Originally Posted by kenavt

This is an interesting design. The one big advantage it has over the elevators (which, I think, were largely dominating in this game) is the ability to hang on the opposite side of pickup. However, this then brings up the question: is this design better than the various arm designs that could hang on both sides?

The only thing I can think of that might make it better than the alternate arm design is a closer center of gravity. I think this is a big reason why elevator designs worked so well. We ended up just using a plain arm design, and speaking as the driver, the CoG of an arm makes fine control tricky when the arm is up. (of course, if your arm is fast enough, it wouldn't need to be up very long) Also, a different distance is needed to hang on different heights when using an arm.