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Originally Posted by DonRotolo
Preventing the clamp from rotating on the horizontal bar would be very difficult in my opinion. Especially without damaging the finish of the bar.
Here is a different idea: what if your clamp were to clamp onto the bar and the robot were to spin sideways, in the plane of the pyramid's face? If the clamp were several inches wide and had a soft grippy foam surface, it might not spin around The axis but lift the robot into the air, kind of like what team 33 did in 2010 breakaway.
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At first when reading that I thought you meant going up the diagonal, but what you propose is actually really interesting. It also means we could do it with just four or so motors. Making the gripping claws wider would mean we'd be relying on the grippiness of our claw, too. If our robot is short enough, we might be able to swing up and grasp onto the third horizontal bar with two clamps. We'd have to be able to dislodge it unpowered (thanks Kevin), but there's
probably a way to get around that.
Hm. Definitely something to prototype. Thanks!