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Originally Posted by aldaeron
We are working on our Level 3 climber and are quite worried about how to meet Rule G04 (reprinted below).
Obviously no one wants to tumble from Level 3 to the floor, but without power and special tools many of the ideas we have come up with are not looking good. Some of our thoughts (and their downfalls):
- Use a pneumatic piston to drive in a lock somewhere to hold the robot
-> We would have to drain the air and slide the lock out. ALso difficult without a tall person.
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Our plan is to use hooks, as previously noted in Post #2, so the person can simply lift it off the pyramid. To keep the arm locked in place, we'll use something like
this, with a 393 motor, an 84-tooth VEX gear, and some fishing line to unlatch it as we ascend.