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Re: Self righting
You could buy some surplus boosters for an R2 unit;
or you could just use an arm if you can't find any. my idea at the beginning of the season was a bent arm that could stow away within the bumper zone. the hinge would be at or slightly above the top of the bumper. it would (while folded) go down to about the bottom of the bumper then project into the robot, perpendicular to the first segment and the bumper, for a little more than 16 inches. when it was deployed it would sweep over the top of he robot (which is on the ground) and push it up. by the end of the righting sequence, the arm would extend over the top of the bumper with the longer segment pointing downward.
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from this:
(bumper)L____________
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to this:
r--------
l(bumper)
l
l
l
l
l
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<not to scale>
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it was thrown out to save weight, complexity, and...
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