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Unread 09-02-2017, 22:44
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Re: pic: Team 3322 Climb

The airship was built with about 10 2x4x8' boards and a few other miscellaneous pieces of wood that we had on hand. We have 200 lbs of weight on the back about 6' away from the rope to counterbalance the robot while it climbs; you can see two tie-down straps in the back that connect the weights to the airship. The straps and 1/2" bolts with wingnuts holding the 'six' sides together let us quickly disassemble the airship when needed (if you look closely you'll see we've only built 3 sides so far).

The touchpad is a Pacman-ish 10" circle cut out of 3/4" plywood with a notch around the channel. We used 3/8" bolts to mount it to the arm (each is about 6" long). There are weak springs around the 3 bolts to give us about 1" of travel to emulate triggering the touchpad.

Each GE-17075 divider has velcro on the bottom and is bolted to a vertical plastic plate that wedges between the airship sides. That way for early testing they can flex out of the way of the robot.

There is a working gear lift behind the legs of my teammate in the hooded sweatshirt. We've busted two of the GE-17064 peg points already that were made with a plastic similar to the material called out. I wonder if these are going to need to change to a more pliable material.
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