Idea to pull down Ramp???

[Roger_Bryan]

So, do you have any ideas or suggestions; that we could find useful and take into consideration? It would be greatly appreciated.

-& yes, my other post was deleted, im not sure why, but when i logged on today, it said i was banned and i had to create a new account.

[JohnSchneider]

Probably has something to do with trolling that girls picture...

He did respond to your design question. He told you that due to bumper rules that piece cant be stationary and has to be articulated. The concept would work but you have to find a sufficient way of actuating the triangle.

There are plenty of other examples of people doing it both on here and youtube. But were not going to design your robot for you Just search around and you'll find something you can use.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Roger_Bryan

So, do you have any ideas or suggestions; that we could find useful and take into consideration? It would be greatly appreciated.

There are a few ways to tip the bridge. The closest to a fixed wedge would be to have a linear slide and springs or pneumatics send a wedge out to the appendage limit, then lock into place--you just need a release so it doesn't fire before the match. You could also build something a little more complex to come in from the top using one of the higher-torque motor/gearbox combinations, say a window motor. There are a number of other ways to do this, I'm sure--we'll probably see something that nobody thought of except the team that kept it a closely-guarded secret until their competition.

-& yes, my other post was deleted, im not sure why, but when i logged on today, it said i was banned and i had to create a new account.

I would suggest asking your team members, or people with access to your computer, if anyone was on your CD account yesterday (or was it the day before?). To put it nicely, they were acting immaturely, whoever it was, though not in that particular thread (it was in one of the image threads from CD-Media). If it was team members, you aren't the first to have something like that happen, though it's worse than the other case I can remember offhand.

[Hawiian Cadder]

We are using an arm with a small grapple that catches on the edge of the bridge, the pivot of the arm is higher than the resting height of the bridge so as the robot drives forward the ramp is forced down. We chose this because it seemed a little more gentle than the extendable ramp method, while still utilizing the power of the drive-train.

[Roger_Bryan]

The Main thing is, before anyone goes off on a tangent, We are mainly looking for something "plain and simple". not really like pneumatics, but just simple enough to know it down.