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Re: [FTC]: Thoughts on Hanging...

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Originally Posted by FTC5202 View Post
This is how we hang. It works really well. It enables our robot to get on the bar in mere seconds. The hard part is getting the right size for the wedges and the positioning on the robot.
I'm CAD'ing some stuff up now to prototype tomorrow, but I've heard teams have had issues with building up enough speed (on the bridge thing) to be able to make it work. I was thinking about grabbing it (see attachment_test) and using some strong "rubber bands" to pull it down (see attachment_test2). What have you figured out that works best?
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