Value of a Gear Ground Pickup

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Value of a Gear Ground Pickup

View Poll Results: How will you be handling Gears?
We are building a Gear Ground Pickup	85	28.52%
We are building a Gearage that can only eject a Gear when the Pilot lifts it out.	89	29.87%
We are building a Gearage that can eject Gears without waiting for the Pilot.	113	37.92%
We forgot to read the manual to realize how important Gears are, so we won't be doing them.	11	3.69%
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26-01-2017, 11:52

SenorZ

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Re: Value of a Gear Ground Pickup

Ground pick-up is like "righting" a flipped tote or bin in 2015. You don't need it, but if you can do it it will save you tons of time driving around.

We tossed around a couple of ideas that didn't seem to work for gear pick up. Then we merged them and found a decent solution. Should be able to collect a fallen gear and gently eject (not launch) it onto the peg.

I recall my rookie year (mentoring) was 2011. And we didn't realize (didn't read the manual) that HPs could throw tubes over the walls. We designed a robot to only get tubes from the feeder station... big OOPS!

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Last edited by SenorZ : 26-01-2017 at 11:55. Reason: forgot a sentence!

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