[EricH]

Originally Posted by Roger_Bryan

So, do you have any ideas or suggestions; that we could find useful and take into consideration? It would be greatly appreciated.

There are a few ways to tip the bridge. The closest to a fixed wedge would be to have a linear slide and springs or pneumatics send a wedge out to the appendage limit, then lock into place--you just need a release so it doesn't fire before the match. You could also build something a little more complex to come in from the top using one of the higher-torque motor/gearbox combinations, say a window motor. There are a number of other ways to do this, I'm sure--we'll probably see something that nobody thought of except the team that kept it a closely-guarded secret until their competition.

-& yes, my other post was deleted, im not sure why, but when i logged on today, it said i was banned and i had to create a new account.

I would suggest asking your team members, or people with access to your computer, if anyone was on your CD account yesterday (or was it the day before?). To put it nicely, they were acting immaturely, whoever it was, though not in that particular thread (it was in one of the image threads from CD-Media). If it was team members, you aren't the first to have something like that happen, though it's worse than the other case I can remember offhand.