pic: 179 USS Swamp Lobsta

[Swampdude]

- That paneling works good for something off the shelf thats strong and light
- It needs to be supported min every 8" from an edge and the supports are in the axial direction of the ramp, not so much the sides
- there are rounded nylon end caps on all the floor contacting points
- right now we're about 5lbs over weight. But we have 2 of the large cims with 2 small cims installed currently. If we do not find ample weight savings in some other places, we may go back to the 2 smaller cims in each AM shifter.
- I do not have video of our other bots driving on it, however we did do that, and it worked great with our crappy wooden programming bot (woody). Also we placed 2 bots on top of it. I will get video of the deployment and 2 bots riding up it this week though, and post that.

I have learned that building a ramp is much harder than it seems. I wanted to build an arm and then have a simple ramp off the end but I couldn't get around the structural requirements needed to have a ramp that could last the rigors of 20+ competition matches.

Thanks for the compliments!