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[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Tyler Olds

Last, how do you knock off the bonus ball.

There wasn't a specific feature intended just to do that. In the hands of a skilled operator -- which we have -- the arm is fantastically capable, and that's what I think everyone was planning to use for bumping the bonus ball. Imagine my surprise when I stopped by the shop to find the 'bot running an autonomous program that knocks the ball quite well with a totally unrelated actuator. It's almost like it was designed to work that way, but nobody told us.

(I'm suddenly reminded of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. )


To be perfectly honest, I was mostly surprised to see the robot running autonomous programs that Andy Baker had written. I wasn't sure my software framework and brief programming instructions would be sufficient, but it was very gratifying to find that they were.