Suction gripper

[Alex.q]

Originally Posted by Jibri Wright

Wow I read the manual of you guys' game! You guys can have weapons? I would suggest you guys have swerve drive as well on your robot so you guys can maneuver past and easily dodge your oponents' attacks.

I also suggest things like padding on the exterior of your robot so you can lower the force dealt from the impulse of an attack.

Is there a limit to how many cones you can put on a pole at a time? If not, you can put on a bunch at a time so no others can fit.

This territory game looks fun.

P.S. College students get all the fun...

I would actually recommend against swerve drive unless you have prior experience with it--too many points of failure; it isn't robust in my experience. (Granted, we only tried it once. There are plenty of teams with better designs than ours).

If you use a gripper tht expands to hold the inside of the cones, make sure you can place them on the rods and retract your claw without pulling the cones back off the rod. That happened a lot in 2011 for inside grippers.