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09-01-2014, 11:10

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Re: Vacuum Pickup

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Originally Posted by yash101

For the kicker, you'd need to relieve the pressure as soon as kicker is about to hit it, to prevent having your vacuum following the ball into the goal, breaking it and getting your robot disabled.

Yeah, having our robot kick itself to death would be entertaining for the spectators, but won't help us win any matches.

A kicker might work. Or swing the ball up & drop it in a catapult.

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