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Re: pic: Whoops

Pretty funny pic there. I'd be so dissapointed if I was on that alliance when that happened though.

My team's robot has a ramp built into the chassis. It's kind of like a rectangle made of two trianges so we hinged a corner and it unfolds to be a ramp.
*i'll see if I can draw it with text*

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|..--..............|
|.......--.........|
|............--....|
|................--| <-------Hinge goes there
|...................|
|...................|
|..O wheels O..|

Anyway, using the arm to push it up, we can deploy it and then using two little lifter leg things, we can raise it to a horizontal position 14 inches above the playing feild.
At first, it was too narrow for other robots to climb, so we added a bungee system so that the bottom two plates would flair outwards a little when it opened and give the robots more room to drive.

Wish I had a picture, I guess i'll be posting one as soon as we get the robot back. Hope you understood at least a bit of that!
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