pic: Team 1893 Week 4

[karpiron]

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[Nate Laverdure]

Looks very good. How wide are the wheel channels? What does the big red light do (EDIT: I guess I should read the manual again)?

[MarsBOtkid]

looks great : ) my only concern is that your relieing that everyone has a simular wheel base. Looks excellent though keep up the good work:p

[Greg Marra]

What does the big red button (or light) do?

That appears to be the required status LED in this year's KOP.

[Nuttyman54]

nice work. do you have any concerns about driver's abilities to maneuver into the wheel wells?

[Dylan Gramlich]

idk those wheel spaces seem pretty big...and its gonna be right in front of your driver station. Good job keep it up!!

[karpiron]

We decided to go with 6"x2" channel centered on a standard kit frame wheel dimensions accepting the risk that it may not fit all comers.

As to the question of maneuvering into that track, I return that question to all of you. Think you could climb aboard?

[fimmel]

if the inside rail was shorter team 885's bot should be able to climb it (we have like .5" clearance 6wd chassis)

[Kyle Love]

Some "low rider" teams may find it difficult to get on the ramp with a 2" lip on the sides.

[karpiron]

Would a 1" inside flange height make a difference?
We'll recalulate structural integrity and consider modification.

[Kyle Love]

I would say between .5 and 1 would be low enough. I don't know if there will be many low rider teams this year.

[MishraArtificer]

Bear in mind (according to the rules), to score the points at the end, the robots have to be entirely inside the home zone. They'll have to do a sharp 90 degree turn to get onto your platform and get both of them there in less than 15 seconds...unless you plan to turn your bot with them on top of you?

[AustinSchuh]

I know for a fact that we have 1 7/8 inch of clearance.

[RedHeadRobotics]

i think it looks good, but how do you plan to get inner tubes. It does look like a good idea for the ramps

[Eric Yahrmatter]

I would say between .5 and 1 would be low enough. I don't know if there will be many low rider teams this year.

You may want to consider bending the inner flanges the other way (down) instead. This will give you nearly the same structural integrity and will allow virtually all teams with narrow aspect robots to climb on top of you.

[akshar]

looks good and like it could support bots. but, if one of your alliance bot's is coming down the field in the last 5-10 seconds i dont think they will have enough time to be able to manuever onto the wheel channels?

[Gabe]

Our robot would never be able to maneuver on that ramp, since the flanges are so high.

[Gertlex]

If a robot has bumpers at the front of it, keep in mind that it may still hit the base of your arm...

Otherwise, looks good :)

[Heretic121]

i think it would definatley be a LOT safter to go 1" inside even SAFER for .5" maybe put some lexan across the bottom all the way so you dont need the inside!?!

[s_forbes]

You may want to consider bending the inner flanges the other way (down) instead. This will give you nearly the same structural integrity and will allow virtually all teams with narrow aspect robots to climb on top of you.

Interesting idea, I wonder if any teams already have that in mind for their ramps?


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