Team #1156 Robot In The Bar

[Chuck[#1156]]

[Jessica Boucher]

Hee. How convenient that the yellow fence thing was the same height as the bar!

Looks good, can't wait to see it in action!

[Tom Bottiglieri]

looks pretty good guys.. just wondering.. those arms you are hanging on will be used to grab the 2x ball, correct. Does your bot do any other functions than hang and grab multiplier?

[tchescow]

With the arms down, and the claw down we are able to push the balls trough the field, and obviously push the movable goal. (I hope, just kidding ). Soon we will post a link with a video so you guys can see it in action, and maybe help us finding another functions

[Alex Salomonsky]

How long did it take to put that arm together? My team has a similiar idea, but we haven't started, I would like to get a timetable

[OneAngryDaisy]

Originally Posted by Alex Salomonsky

How long did it take to put that arm together? My team has a similiar idea, but we haven't started, I would like to get a timetable

If you haven't started.. explore other options, unless you are willing to stay at your shop all day every day until shipping, a ladder system takes quite a while, as there are several separate sections that must fit together perfectly.. we had one a few years ago, it worked perfectly until someone flipped us in our own competition and the entire thing snapped

[tchescow]

We took almost one week to build the elevator (including time to buy the materials, the bulding itself, adjusts, strenght tests...). The major issue was when we found out that we had to stretch the chain to work better. To build the claw we took another 3 days, the major issue that time was to put the elevator and the claw togheter. Anything else we can help?

[Jon Anderson]

That is very cool.

Are you going to be able to take a ball up with you when you hang?

[tchescow]

We haven't tryied to hang on the bar holding anything.

[crazykid234]

the bot looks way cool. the fact that you are done already makes me envious another question... what are you planning to do if someone hits your arm while it's down?? (I am not threatening)
that was something our team had a huge problem with

[Chuck[#1156]]

Originally Posted by crazykid234

the bot looks way cool. the fact that you are done already makes me envious another question... what are you planning to do if someone hits your arm while it's down?? (I am not threatening)
that was something our team had a huge problem with

depending the intensity of the impact in the arm it can break... but we want to stay with the arm in the back of the bot.
But is almost impossible to not hit in a bot...so we´re taking more arms to replace
Any other question...pls post

[kjohnson]

If another robot runs into it, will the arm slide off the bar?