Date: 2013-08-01

PBC Linear Mini-Rail® Gives FRC Team Vikings Vertical Lift in 2011 Competition

(May 26, 2011 - Rockford, IL)

The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an annually held national competition pitting high school teams against each other to see who can produce the best working robot design. This year, PBC Linear re-teamed with the Vikings from Central Catholic High School outside of Pittsburgh, PA (Team: 2641). The team needed help with a new design for a brand new game. For reliable linear travel under extreme impact conditions, the Vikings decided to install Mini-Rail® miniature linear guides in a telescopic lift application. As the team headed further into the competition, they found further uses for the Mini-Rail; including implementing the linear guides as a way to deploy a smaller robot used as another means to score points.

To get started, each FRC team is given a collection of parts and allotted six weeks of pre/design time to build their robot. While the same collection of parts are given to every team, each team is encouraged to go out and find products that meet the needs of the unique contest played each year. For 2011, FRC unveiled Logomotion™, a game where an alliance (made up of three teams) go against another alliance to see who can rack up the most points by placing a variety of plastic tubes onto 10

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