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Originally Posted by David Guzman
This bot looks "hot". The ramp looks awesome, thats a great use for your covers.
whats the material on the covers??
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The covers are just thin lexan that has been spray painted by the students on the reverse side to reduce the amount of it scraping away.
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Originally Posted by Billfred
Looks interesting. Is the ramp and such just a shell that the robot can pull out of to enable more real estate?
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The ramp is deployed by the fisher price gearbox on our arm - if you look closely, you'll see a box going around the banebots motor that controls our gripper. This is actually a servo that rotates a piece 90 degrees and allows us to make contact with our ramps and deploy them. We then unlock our shell with another servo, and simply drive out of it - no additional motors required.