Designs over the years.

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Originally Posted by slijin

To add to this, 1114 used a ramp that lined up with the pole to deploy their minibot, which allowed the minibot to start going up the pole with an initial velocity, as opposed to most other teams which plopped theirs onto the pole.

148 also pioneered the "magnet" minibot that would become dominant by CMP; whereas most minibots would physically clamp onto the pole and then climb, theirs used magnets to stick to it, and thin rubber-lined axles to drive them up.

The idea to strip the TETRIX motors of their gearbox just grew on CD as people discussed it; I don't recall any single person/team that was singlehandedly responsible for popularizing the idea.

Where did you get this from? MANY teams had magnets on their Original Minibot's. We had magnets on ours and we never saw 148's robot until after ours was made.