Team 2980 2013 Open Source Robot

[Jibri Wright]

Originally Posted by eedoga

At this point I think we would run up against a few things. First of all is weight. This robot is small, but dense. I am not sure we could fit anything else in and be under the weight limit. Each tri-wheel without the three chains inside weighs 6.2 pounds...So we are probably over 30 pounds for that climbing mechanism. even if we had the weight capacity adding a light weight shooter would probably be mostly ineffective.

We are also running up against time. We currently have not tested our robot climbing up a pyramid. We hope to see it climb later this week. We could develop a light weight shooter as our with holding allowance, but I have a feeling we are going to be modifying our climber during that time.

There is also the time available during a match. We aren't sure how quickly our robot will climb the pole. We probably won't have time for taking shots. Our current plan is to try to dump in the lowest slot during autonomous and then make a bee line for the half way mark so that we can load up the top dumper with the colored disks and get back to climbing.

Hope this clears things up.

Edoga

Ya I guess that's like a week worth of late nights by now. If I read this thread earlier, I probably would of posted the idea sooner, sorry about that.