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Originally Posted by sentientfungus
Hey! Not precisely true! We're prototyping for both level one and level three designs!
On another note, perhaps a dual engagement version of 2056's 2010 climbing mechanism would work. The first "climber" contacts the module, and the robot is lifted to vertical (or maybe so that the side of the robot is roughly parallel to the side pole, rolls up to the first bump, at which point the second set engages above the bump and the first stage disengages. Repeating this process would lead to a "hand-over-hand" approach to climbing the side.
Of course, balance would be a possible issue here...
Challenges like this are what makes FIRST so fun!
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This is EXACTLY what our team originally talked about! We based our original thinking off of Team 33 Killer Bees' hanger arm but essentially the same idea. A tumbling robot up the pyramid. The first arm would rotate the robot 180 degrees. Then the second would grip and flip the robot over again and so on.
Our new thoughts have gone in a direction of two arms and a horseshoe shaped wide robot. Lots more prototyping to do...