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Originally Posted by steelerborn
This is what we usually do with all of our arm systems. This is a great way to get a desired effect without having to change a gearbox. However designing an arm correctly with a transmission that can hadle the arm without assistance, is the best option. For logomotion having the ability to back up grab a tube and lift your arm all the way back over to the other side to score was a really big time advantage that I noticied 973 perform over and over again. They were able to hang a lot of tubes very quickly due to this advantage. Maybe Adam can say something about this?
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Our robot did use the feature well, but teams like 1503, 233 and especially 987 used it better. We made our whole robot symmetrical at first (with rear floor pickup), we should have just allowed the arm to rotate over. It can save time if used right. We complicated the design of things a lot to allow that symmetry, and it wasn't necessary.
As for scoring, we were good at champs, but just ever so slightly out of that top tier. If the best in our division were doing 8-9, we were probably doing 6-7. IRI we had a new driver and that average tanked unfortunately.
Of course even though its less than a week until kickoff, dave can still change the rules to make bearhugging me in automode a bonus - Mike Schroeder [more] 
28-08-2011, 22:00
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