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Originally Posted by hillale
I noticed the only real problem you guys seemed to have with the new design was balls seemed to get caught up in the initial intake area off of the ground. I'm glad you figured out a way to be more effective and you guys did great at Wisconsin. Do you guys know if you are going to Atlanta yet?
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The jamming problem at the intake was fixed before the elimination rounds. Beleive it or not the jaming problem at the intake of the robot (bottom) was caused by the switch from shooter to dumper. The top plate for the dumper was to flimsy and allowed the spinning brushes running the hopper to lift up. That in return allowed a set of bevel gear under the robot to seperate and the intake rollers would stop turning.
Currently we have no real plans for going to Atlanta. Basically the only way we would consider it is if we somehow win this week at Boilermaker.
We are still currently searching for something that resembles traction control with atleast a little speed for the robot. If you noticed at Wisconsin, we were slow moving and struggled greatly when put in a pushing situation.
The true beauty is, no matter what the game (Yes, even 2001), we spend these 6 weeks going crazy with design strategy, and trying to figure out a way to work the plot twists that the GDC throws at us...and its a blast. - Andy Grady [more] 
16-03-2009, 20:20
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