Climbing Mechanism Ideas

[moogboy]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

How's the brainstorming coming along? The complexity of this task is proving to be a stumper so far, it seems. I wonder if we'll see any dedicated climbers with no other abilities. Is there any precedent in FIRST for non-wheeled bots?

One of our mentors came up with a non-wheeled design. a 50 pound, 16x16x16 cube that would do nothing except climb to the third level. Really, you wouldn't even need drivers. Someone could take that idea of a non-wheeled robot and ask really nicely for other robots to give them the alliance colored frisbees and have a really simple dumping mechanism to get another 20 points.