Anyone going under the rail?

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Posted by Raul at 1/10/2001 11:10 PM EST


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


In Reply to: Anyone going under the rail?
Posted by Rick Gibbs on 1/10/2001 8:54 PM EST:



I believe its is a little too much to ask to have a useful design that can squeeze down to a 12" space. Unless of course all you aim to do is sit in the endzone or push/pull things around. Now over the rails is quite a bit easier - but is it worth it?

We could only think of three reason to consider getting over or under the rails.

1) If 4 bots are on one side and a ball lodges under the bridge on the other side - you are stuck unless someone can get past the rails to free the bridge.

2) It reduces the wait time to reset the bridge. In other words, more robot can get to the endzone quicker.

3) You can balance the bridge from the player side and still get to the endzone.

4) OK, there is a 4th but it doesn't really count - it would just be cool to be able to do it!

Raul