Fastest way to lower the bridge?

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Posted by Raul at 1/8/2001 8:16 AM EST


Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.



What does everyone think here. Just a couple of my thoughts:

If you are on the side with the bridge up, just push down on it; this is obvious enough.

If you just went over the bridge and want to reset it for others to come over - just drive next to the bridge and push on the pole holding the weights. Any other scheme of trying to grab it or scoop under it is likely to take longer.

Raul

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Posted by Ken Leung at 1/8/2001 11:24 AM EST


Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.


In Reply to: Fastest way to lower the bridge?
Posted by Raul on 1/8/2001 8:16 AM EST:



Since the edge of the bridge is steel, can we use big magnet to attract it and pull the side up with an arm(?). It depends on how many magnet we can use... Anyone know what's the deal with magnets?

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Posted by Joe Taylor at 1/8/2001 12:41 PM EST


Engineer on team #461, West Side Boiler Invasion, from West Lafayette High School and Purdue University / Schlomberger.


In Reply to: Magnet?
Posted by Ken Leung on 1/8/2001 11:24 AM EST:



permanent magnets are in the additional parts list-you can use as many as you want.

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Posted by Raul at 1/8/2001 12:43 PM EST


Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.


In Reply to: Magnet?
Posted by Ken Leung on 1/8/2001 11:24 AM EST:



Well, you can you as many permanent magnets of any size that you want (according to the Add'l HW list).

Raul


: Since the edge of the bridge is steel, can we use big magnet to attract it and pull the side up with an arm(?). It depends on how many magnet we can use... Anyone know what's the deal with magnets?

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Posted by Matt Leese at 1/8/2001 1:25 PM EST


Other on team #73 from Edison Technical HS and Alstom & Rochester Institute of Technology.


In Reply to: Magnet?
Posted by Ken Leung on 1/8/2001 11:24 AM EST:



Well, you could use magnets to move the end of the bridge but using enough magnets to pull the thing would most likely seriously mess with the Control System. Electronics and magents don't cooperate too well. I suppose you could shield everything magnetically but that'd be a lot more trouble than it's worth.

Matt

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Posted by shaun at 1/8/2001 7:01 PM EST


Other on team #25, nbths robotics team , from nbths and bms.


In Reply to: Fastest way to lower the bridge?
Posted by Raul on 1/8/2001 8:16 AM EST:



when our group was talking today we came up with an idea to make our robot into a bridge so that other robots could use us to get over the rail. We ended up not going with that idea but that is another way a looking at that game.

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Posted by Joshua Berthiaume at 1/8/2001 10:20 PM EST


Student on team #501, Power Knights, from Manchester West High School and FCI and SME Chapter 327.


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Posted by shaun on 1/8/2001 7:01 PM EST:



What led you to choosing not to be the bridge?
Josh
~T501

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Posted by shaun at 1/9/2001 11:17 AM EST


Other on team #25, nbths robotics team , from nbths and bms.


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Posted by Joshua Berthiaume on 1/8/2001 10:20 PM EST:



we came up with another idea that we think could be more useful to our allince

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Posted by Deej at 1/9/2001 5:12 PM EST


Engineer on team #190, Gompeii, from Mass Academy and WPI.


In Reply to: Fastest way to lower the bridge?
Posted by Raul on 1/8/2001 8:16 AM EST:



Why not just be the last robot across the bridge by helping out.... What I mean is be the robot on the starting side that lowers the bridge after a robot as toggled it. THat way there you don't have to worry about lifting from the other side. Just a thought


: What does everyone think here. Just a couple of my thoughts:

: If you are on the side with the bridge up, just push down on it; this is obvious enough.

: If you just went over the bridge and want to reset it for others to come over - just drive next to the bridge and push on the pole holding the weights. Any other scheme of trying to grab it or scoop under it is likely to take longer.

: Raul