pic: Just finished our pyramid. Conduit seems to work fine.

[alex334]

Originally Posted by buchanan

Good job, I was wondering if this might work. The competition pyramid has to be built to a pretty high standard, given that it has to stand up to up to three robots for many matches, but something lighter should certainly be fine for testing.



Echo that, inquiring minds really want to know - the $$ difference is about 3x.

The conduit we used had about a 1/16" wall thickness. Make of that what you will.
We built off the specs from the "Game Specific Drawings," not the team version.
We don't really mind discrepancies in pipe diameter and angles (a couple of corners are a few degrees off). If you can't build a robot to tolerate those minor differences in designs and implementations, you are really building it too precisely. As in Logomotion, many teams had very fast minibots, but the tolerances needed to get them onto the pole were just too small. We're thinking the same logic applies to this.
For those of you asking about measurements, the center of the piping in each rung is 30" vertically off the ground. The slant height is about 32"-33" if I remember correctly. Just use some simple trigonometry to figure it out precisely.