1625 Approaches the Tower - Teaser
 

Part of the robot approaches our custom pyramid.
We are very excited about the design.

Re: 1625 Approaches the Tower - Teaser
 

It's brilliant! I see what you're going for...gosh, why didn't I think of that?? :eek:

Re: 1625 Approaches the Tower - Teaser
 

I predict a corner climber...

Re: 1625 Approaches the Tower - Teaser
 

Im curious on how it operates with-out contacting three zones; interesting!

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We had the same idea. It doesn't look like your mechanism is finished. The top spins, you move up the first bar, and from there what? The bottom one is too far down to grab onto the bar to pull you any further. The way this mechanism is right now by itself, you've got yourself an intricate 10 point climbing mechanism at best. There's something else that you're not showing. I believe I know what it is, having designed one of these, but I'll let everyone else figure it out for themselves.

All I say is I hope you can pull it off.

Re: 1625 Approaches the Tower - Teaser
 

just add some motors and another set of "wheels" and you got yourself a 30 point climber :)

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That is, until you fall off the pole backwards because there's nothing holding you on to it.

I came up with this (or what I think this is) earlier in the build season. I'm interested in seeing how well this climbs, but I think we've come up with something better.

Re: 1625 Approaches the Tower - Teaser
 

We had a similar idea, we posted about it here,, but under no circumstances do we believe this will be a 15 second climber. We have run into a number of issues with this design, especially when it is carrying the rest of the robot with it. We have ended up with a system that we hope will make it up the pole, but we are really in no rush to get up there. The current plan is to have the robot drive over, fill it up with 4 colored disks, drive it up to the top of the pyramid, and dump them in for up to 20 more points. We want to give ourselves as much time for climbing as we can. The dumper isn't in the drawings because we don't currently have a computer strong enough to model the whole thing.

Hope this helps, or that someone can use some our info.

Edoga

Re: 1625 Approaches the Tower - Teaser
 

Huh! Its like a cross between two ideas we had/have. Weird! :yikes: