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Bridge problems!!!

Posted by Chris Hardman at 04/09/2001 11:42 PM EST


Student on team #111, WILDSTANG, from Rolling Meadows and Wheeling High schools and motorola.


In Reply to: Bridge problems?
Posted by Elliot Johnson on 04/09/2001 11:25 PM EST:



We didn't have so much of a problem with the bridge coming off it's fulcrum. The problem we had was that with all of the use on one bridge they tend to be more loose. In one of the finals matches a ref pulled the goal off the bridge and when the goal was off, the bridge automatically balanced itself. Kind of interesting if you ask me. We also would position the goals perfectly but for somereason with the bridge wanting to go one way, it caused an error in balancing. we managed to over come it and continue. We did not the bridge off it's fulcrum in one of the finals matches at Motorola Midwest Regional. These problems are what i noticed on the acrhimedes field.

chris
: And a quick question about that bridge. My team couldn't make it to a regional so this was our first time to play on the competition field. We built a practive bridge that we practiced on quite a bit without trouble. However, at the Nationals competition, we kept running into a big problem (this was on the galileo field). When robots would go over the bridge, the force from the bridge falling would cause it to bounce up. The angle iron on the raised sidef would land on top of the wood beam rather than on the side so the whole bridge was resting on the angle instead of directly on the beam. This made the bridge incredibly hard to work with and nearly impossible to balance. Did this happen often at the regionals or on other fields at Nationals? and how did teams work around this or prevent it from happening?

: -elliot






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