Way over 80 inches!!!

[Shivang1923]

we almost had the same problem

if more than 1 item (I.E. 2 claws comingout to grab the ball) is used then only have one action performed at one time

okay if i had a claw, and bringing out both at the same time exceeds the 80in circle by 3 in, I bring out the left one, then the right one, so im never out of the 80 in circle at any given time.

The inspecters will tell the refs what to look for if they see that your bot can exceed the 80 in, but as long as the robot never does so, you cant be penalized.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Shivang1923

okay if i had a claw, and bringing out both at the same time exceeds the 80in circle by 3 in, I bring out the left one, then the right one, so im never out of the 80 in circle at any given time.

The inspecters will tell the refs what to look for if they see that your bot can exceed the 80 in, but as long as the robot never does so, you cant be penalized.

Would the claws ever be more than 80" from each other or any other part of the robot horizontally? If not, then you can run both at once.

[R.C.]

i really hate this rule, our robot was done three days ago. Our bot looked like a beast but the rule severely affected our bot and we made drastic changes.

[iPilipino]

Well I figured a way to not be over and so I told our advisers. So we went to plan C and our strategy has changed.

We just decided to stop the fork from going horizontally because the forks, when extended, makes the whole arm go more than 20inch over the limit. YES THAT BIG!

So we decided to go with my idea to stop the fork vertically and putting the kill switch there.

We have one more day to finish the robot and practice driving it.

Panic panic panic!!!

[Kims Robot]

Not sure what your programming resources is, but the last two years we have had programming limits for all of our positions, a little complicated with an arm/wrist combo, but your design might be simpler to do that.