pic: Team 980's arm hitting the stack at 2 seconds on clock

[DougHogg]

Originally posted by Doanie8
I've seen this in action at the Chatsworth scrimmage and it's extremeley effective and super fast (and a little scary when you're a ref and it swings above your head but I'm guessing you fixed that all). Great idea, keep it up and good luck at your other comps!!!

It was kinda' scary at Chatsworth. We had to post someone on the side to make sure no one was in range.

We did some major changes after that, including limit switches to prevent the arm from going out of bounds or rotating the wrong way, and it was handled by the Arizona Regional where we were 4th seed and semi-finalists.

As an aside, one day the rotating motor for our arm had a loose connection and the arm came up but didn't rotate. The engineer who designed the arm stepped forward to see what the problem was, when wouldn't you know it, the arm suddenly swung and hit him right between the eyes. He is fine, but he was definitely sore for a few days. I guess there is a lesson to be learned there: loose connections don't always stay loose.