Yeah, we're ditching the scoop idea. Instead, we're going to use a grabber. The scoop turned out to be too finicky to pick up blocks and there was also some clearance issues. The original reason we didn't use a grabber was because there's only a quarter inch of clearance in the cryptoboxes when you've got a glyph in it.. We're getting around this by only grabbing part of the glyph.. After we put it in the cryptobox, we'll shove it so the part we were holding goes in. That way we don't have to put our grabber in the cryptobox while holding a glyph. It will also be easier to pick up two glyphs at once. I will let Benedict's eloquent (CAD) pictures explain the rest. Ta-da! On another we're-making-progress note, Veronica and I are ditching Android Studio, which is what we were going to program in originally. Veronica is learning plain Java, and I'm learning Blocks. I'm really just learning Blocks as a backup plan, hopefully Veronica will be able to do the programming. Blocks is a ridiculously quick learn, I got a program running in half an hour or something like that. Admittedly, all it did was turn a motor, but still. It's also really fun!
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