Re: Inflating the Ringers
 

Thanks, I was going to mention that, I read the page last night.

Has anyone seen an inflation spec elsewhere? if not maybe it's a question for Q&A?

Re: Inflating the Ringers
 

I dont know if its a good thing or not, but our robots havnt had lots of "air pressure" features. SO we had our team blow them up.
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Our students are full of hot air anyways :yikes:

Re: Inflating the Ringers
 

I think for many designs it will be important that we know what the pressure is. I don't think that field re-seters are going to have the time to re-inflate each tube after every match. Teams are going to have to work around that and figure out some way that their "manipulator" can adjust to each individual tube.

--dan

Re: Inflating the Ringers
 

I think it would be a mistake to assume that the tubes will be inflated to a standard pressure, and design your manipulator with that in mind.

Re: Inflating the Ringers
 

I was huffing and puffing ....

Re: Inflating the Ringers
 

I think it's entirely possible to keep them at the right pressure give or a take very little. The staff could just rotate ones that look squishier than others out with freshly filled ones.
But still, I'm sure we will see more than one instance of a grabber not working because a tube got flatter through the course of a match, maybe even unscorable after it's been picked up. Imagine a manipulator made useless by a flattened tube than can't be dropped by your bot.