Team Update #1

[wilsonmw04]

As a teacher of conceptual, standard and AP Physics, I understand the principles behind most mechanical processes. I stand by my statement that you are already limiting yourself in your approach.

have anyone thought about this?:

<G59> TEAMS must retrieve MINIBOTS from the TOWER quickly and safely after each MATCH. Violation: The FIELD crew will retrieve the MINIBOT if the TEAM does not. A second violation may result in a YELLOW CARD.

Can you make a bare bones minibot that you can SAFELY remove from the tower in less than 1 minute?

[skimoose]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

have anyone thought about this?:

Can you make a bare bones minibot that you can SAFELY remove from the tower in less than 1 minute?

Absolutely, this is not an engineering challenge.

I can easily think of several ways to get a bare bones bot off the pole safely in less than 30 seconds (and they don't involve a stick chainsaw as Dean demonstrated). After all, we're planning a sub-one second deployment. Why should it take up to a minute to retrieve the little critter?