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Originally Posted by Beth Sweet
I think that this year's game brought on both the "bad" robots and extensive defense. Both of this year's game objectives were very difficult. Trying to make a manipulator capable of lifting a ringer is quite the engineering feat with lots of little issues (getting the arm to move, making the gripper move as intended etc.) as does trying to make ramps. Since the ramps cannot be rampy on the field, you have to design something that deploys during the match. I've seen a lot of robots that either get 1 ramp to deploy, both ramps get stuck halfway... etc.
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I was designing this crazy complicated ramp when the students came to me with a cardboard mock up of a simple two piece gravity deployed hinged ramp that would be easy to make and use. We build the whole thing in about two days. Simple, effective and it worked great.
KISS is the way to go.