Well, I must say that today was WORLDS better than yesterday for team 716.
We finally got our hook to work... and it works well now. We moved up from being the 23rd seed at the beginning of today to being the 4th seed by the time todays rounds were over. We also experienced great success with our autonomous modes... we consistently capped the center home goal with the tetra that we were allowed to start with. So kudos to team 716's lone rookie programmer this year...Dillon (CmptrGk), for getting this to work!
As for our wheel problem, we didn't get that resolved. I am not sure if we are going to do anything about it at this point, because we really don't have any materials to work with to make the wheels slide easier. For example, I love the pool hose idea, but we don't have any. And as for the tire inserts, I don't really know what they are...so I don't think we have any.
As for zip ties, I was told by Andy Brockway, our engineer, that they wouldn't have enough surface area to make much of a difference.
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Jaine,
I know it doesn't help a whole lot, but it is possible you are letting too much air out of the tires and it is causing the beads to unseat. Basically the only solution that doesn't require anything over or on the tire would be to just mess around with the air pressure until you can find one that works.
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This WAS our problem, as I said earlier. Our tire pressure was too low, but when we made it higher, our wheels bounced very badly. So I guess we are stuck with the bounciness, unless we can come up with something else. Thanks to everyone here for giving us suggestions as to how to fix this problem though!
Good luck to everyone tomorrow..this has been a wonderful and exciting event.
-- Jaine