pic: 571 - Team Paragon is blue this year....

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[Rich Wong]

NICE! Clean design. It does not even look heavy.

.... interesting flip up shelf on the front of the BOT.
I assume it can hold a 2X ball?

[Solace]

that is not a shelf.

it is a ball sucker, there is a roller there connected to the chip that can suck up and hold up to 6 balls. and it spits them out really fast too (we're wondering if we'll be able to get them into the ball coral from a distance)

it can actually hold 2 big balls. the wrist in the jaw lets it place one of the 2x balls on top the cage where it is cradled. the claw can then grab another one if it the next ball is on top of a goal. this pic is from a while ago, so its hardly complete.

the goal grabber in the back is configured so that it also provides a lever that lifts the bot onto the platform. its pretty cool - its not the piston of the grabber that lifts the bot, but the motion of the bot itself.

we have some sweet new gearboxes this year. you can see them here. 2 drills 2 FP's, high gear 14.5 feet/sec low gear 8.5 feet/sec.

[Alaina]

Sounds pretty sweet.

[Ben Lauer]

good luck to getting enough weight off. I think even with swiss cheesing it will be a stretch for 17 lbs....! Hope you get something figured out.

[Elgin Clock]

PLease tell me that in the boxes marked "Lav Guard" and "Lav Shield" there are not those little blue deodorant cakes that go in urinals....

[Solace]

nah, those things are the little plastic pipe insulators that you see covering the pipes underneath sinks in public bathrooms.

[Jon K.]

RAGE is sad that there is no red. LOL

[Jones571]

with all our functions on there we are now only about a pound or so over weight