Best wheels to not damage a gym floor

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Have you done this?

I could see if the wheels really rapidly slipped the surface speed and resultant friction could melt the wax a bit.

150lbs on four 1" contact patches of tight-pile carpet could easily get around a gym, so long as the direction of the wheels mostly follows the momentum of the robot. I didn't do it with an FRC bot, but I did do it to a smaller VEX robot to chase my dog around the hardwood floors of my new house.

[Taylor]

[quote=SuperNerd256;1193399]Why not just cover your wheels in duct tape?QUOTE]

Because duct tape tends to leave a nasty, sticky residue. Sean's suggestion of gaffers tape is a good one.

[dcarr]

I wanted to revisit this thread to ask - who out there has done a successful demo at a basketball game (or other similar event in a gymnasium) with their Rebound Rumble robot? What worked, what didn't? Any advice to other teams wishing to do something like this? We plan to keep our 2012 bot up and running for the possibility of doing one in January.

[279 EMPIE]

We have been doing open houses in our school gym with our robot just fine and where are using mecanum wheels (spelled that wrong)

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by 279 EMPIE

We have been doing open houses in our school gym with our robot just fine and where are using mecanum wheels (spelled that wrong)

Have you ever tried a half time show type demo? We've done open houses before but this would be the first time we'd have the 'spotlight' per say.

Is anyone else planning to try (or has tried in the past) a half-time demo of their robot?

[Jacob.B]

We just roll carpet out in the section of which we are demoing at.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by Jacob.B

We just roll carpet out in the section of which we are demoing at.

Ah...carpet rolling, the bane of my existence.