20-09-2010, 07:49
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...and you can't! teach! that!
 FRC #5402 (Iron Kings); no team (AndyMark) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Rookie Year: 2004
Location: The Land of the Kokomese, IN
Posts: 8,491
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Re: If you could Breakaway all over again...
Kicker durability. We put a lot of surgical tubing on the kicker to get adequate range, which put a lot of forces on the points where the tubing was attached. Result? Our kicker was cooked by the end of Palmetto. (1398's failed midway through Atlanta.)
Hanging and redirection would've been nice, but the complexity required to let us keep going through the tunnels means I'm not losing any sleep over those calls.
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2004-2006: FRC 1293 (D5 Robotics) - Student, Mentor, Coach
2007-2009: FRC 1618 (Capital Robotics) - Mentor, Coach
2009-2013: FRC 2815 (Los Pollos Locos) - Mentor, Coach - Palmetto '09, Peachtree '11, Palmetto '11, Palmetto '12
2010: FRC 1398 (Keenan Robo-Raiders) - Mentor - Palmetto '10
2014-2016: FRC 4901 (Garnet Squadron) - Co-Founder and Head Bot Coach - Orlando '14, SCRIW '16
2017-: FRC 5402 (Iron Kings) - Mentor
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