Thread: Let's Talk About The Bridge:
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Unread 11-01-2012, 01:36
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Re: Let's Talk About The Bridge:
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Originally Posted by Tetraman View Post
Taking from the new will.I.am song, you mean "You can go hard, or you can go home."

Anyway, here is a bit of thought that I'm sure many have thought about already: (please excuse the bad Sketchup drawing. I'm not finished with the final field.)

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...ingTheGame.png

Step 1: Carry Bot is on one side, with the other two on the other side.
Step 2: Carry Bot puts the Bridge on the top of their robot, allowing a robot to drive onto them.
Step 3: Carry Bot or the Third Bot moves the bridge down for the Two bots to get up.
Step 4: Two bots move to allow the Third Bot to get up.
Step 5: +40 Points.
We had the same idea.... seems like an interesting way to go. Need to get rule clarifictions about robot piggy backing.... I wonder about possible bumper zone violations for the upper robot.

If all robots can be designed to climb a 30 deg ramp... then they could just drive over the robot using 14in ramp extensions and then you don't require the use of a bridge to mount. This would have to be a very low profile specilized robot.