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But please take into account that each year, the GDC has to come up with a rule book that will spend the next three months being picked apart by 40,000 of the brightest, most creative minds on the planet. I think they do an outstanding job of it. - dtengineering [more]

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28-01-2009, 14:03

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Re: pic: Dawgma Robot end of week 3

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Originally Posted by daltore

Solid core, from McMaster-Carr. Transparent extruded polyurethane belting that had been fused at the factory. We had one belt running from a motor to a couple of wheels at the end of an arm that pulled the ball in. By the end of the regional, the wheels would barely spin at all because there was so much slack in the belt.

This is one reason why my team is using hollow core this year - if it needs to be retensioned, just snip off an inch and insert a new barb.

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