pic: 2015 robot offseason redesign

[akoscielski3]

Originally Posted by asid61

Have you tried the 4-wheel intake that 118, 254, 1114 used? It seems to be very effective.
That elevator mounting looks a little small, but I'm not clear 100% on how you're doing it.

Originally Posted by Bob Z

Do you know why 4 wheel intake is so efficient?

I was the mentor that assisted the student that designed the intakes for our robot this year. Our intakes were specifically built for the landfill, so we wanted to be able to intake a tote that was in any orientation. Our intake uses 4 wheels, but only 2 of them are fixed (the inside set), and the other two are sprung. When a wheel contacts the tote the wheel starts to pull it into us, and the sprung wheels will wrap themselves around the tote, and re-orientate the tote.

The Banebot wheels were the best wheels we could find for our intakes. However we did try many other popular wheels. The banebots unfortunately wore out after a while though. We usually changed the wheels once a regional (A new set for the start, and a new set for the Elims). Regarding the orange wheels, I can not recall the reason we selected them as I do not remember trying the different colours of Banebot wheels.


If you have any questions feel free to ask me.

-AK