[eedoga]

Your plan to climb sounds a lot like what one of the ideas we are looking at does.

Our climbing robot design has a central channel for driving up one of the pyramid polls, and a bucket on the end of an arm for dumping disks into the scoring basket at the top.

If you don't have a lot of engineering support I would focus on getting a robot that can move around, and possibly adding some way of dumping / shooting disks. If you can get that working, then look to hang on the bottom rung of the pyramid which I think for many will be the default.

Check out teh "robot in three days" thread to see what they were able to put together pretty quickly.

Also, don't get discouraged, read the manuals for each part of the robot. There are resources like the "FIRST electronics test bench setup manual" that will get you to the point of having a chassis that can drive around.

You may also want to look at the pneumatics manual to see how to get pistons working.

Hope this helps

Edoga