Finally, for the first time in a while, we got to have a somewhat lengthy meeting with people who know what they're doing!
When I arrived, I suggested that we go to the nearby hardware store to get some springs in accordance with the plan we made yesterday. We did so, and also collected some rubber bands to use as back-up. With a John Deere engineer there to assist us, we got the springs attached in about a half hour. Keeping the hanger bar straight up required one of the springs to be going the opposite direction, which required moving the bar's attachment points up a little.
With that done, the robot was able to successfully approach the bar on the field and pull up onto it! The flag raiser, however, is still not working. It was too low, so I moved its mount up a little bit, placing it at the right height, but still off-center. We'll need to replace it at the next meeting.
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