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Originally Posted by whakojacko
Hey is that the name of your bot? That was the name of our bot last year!! Haha. What school are you guys from? Which regionals are you going to?
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Hey - didn't mean to steal your name - it was unintentional. Anyway, we're a third-year team from Plainedge HS, which is in N. Massapequa on Long Island. We go to the SBPLI Regional. I actually came up with that name after several other (less favorable) suggestions including "Six Pack" (even though we now have just four wheels), "Kill Switch", and "The Juice." Was yours spelled with the "k" too?
Anyway here is our lifting method revealed:
That extrusion arm is rotated to vertical pneumatically (a cylinder out of view). Then, a cable-pully-winch system telescopes the arm to the right height. The winch itself doesn't have enough power to lift the robot. That's where that huge cylinder comes in. It has a steel cable that attaches directly to the top extrusion (the one with the hook) and pulls it down (or, pulls the rest of the robot up). The arm doubles (triples?) as a big-ball-knocker-outer and a small-yellow-ball-getter-offer (if we ever get our autonomous down).
The result: (sorry for the low-quality image)
