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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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Re: Value of a Gear Ground Pickup

Being able to pickup the gears off of the ground is an extra part to a robot that isn't necessary to compete, but it might give that little edge in a unique scenario. My team said from the first day that we must do it for a few reasons.

1) If you have partners that don't have gear manipulators then you can just set a gear on their bumper at the start of the match and have it fall. That saves you one trip to the feeder station if you can just pick it up off of the floor.

2) Early on I anticipate gears dropping every once and a while from robots that haven't quite figured out how to support the gears completely. Being able to pickup off of the floor in this situation might just save you a couple seconds on some cycles.

Overall, it isn't super important, but it might be that little extra that distinguishes a good robot from a great robot. Not sure though until competition starts.
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