pic: Skunkworks Team 1983 NEW ROBOT FOR ATLANTA!

[Stephi Rae]

Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII

Your use of the ladder was pretty clever. What kind of bearings did you use to make it slide so nice?

haha, I'm going to assume that you mean on the real robot... The robot in this picture is just our practice robot and our new pvc "ball-knocker-offer" so that our drivers finally have something to practice with and our programmers can finally work on a hybrid. Anyways, i believe we used the igus slides, and mounted the tracks straight to the edge of the ladder sections. the slides are simply the little plastic things from igus. i was not personally responsible for the construction of that part, so i'm not exactly positive, but I believe that is pretty much how it all goes together. on the outer sides of the ladder sections we have our pulley system. the pulleys are simple plastic pulleys, i'm not sure where we got them, and we run spectron line (commonly used on sailboates) through them to the drum setup which is run by a FP and 550. They are run together, and one side of the ladder/pulley/spectron setup powers up and the other powers down by running opposite directions on the drum. It's a pretty cool thing to see. We used the same slides for the "tilt back" motion on the ladder for our carrying configuration. If you have anymore questions feel free to ask, and i'll get some more info from someone that worked on it more than i have!