2017:Lifter

1/18/2017

- Velcro is allowed on ropes, assuming the rope follows all other rope criteria.   See FRC Q & A #6 and #215: https://frc-qa.firstinspires.org/qa/6         https://frc-qa.firstinspires.org/qa/215

- Originally we planned to make a "finger" based climber but we realized that the "fingers" sometimes pushed the rope away instead of catching it.  This made the climber require a longer amount of time to align.

- To circumvent this issue, we designed another prototype.  This second model used velcro to catch a velcro rope.  It is much smaller and easier to assemble, therefore taking up less space and time.  Inspiration was derived from Ri3D 1.0 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6_UBzGQM-A

- We would also like to implement a "flip" mechanism which would transfer the climber from inside the hopper (most likely) to the outside of the robot, above the bumpers.