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Wedge will work!
Posted by Ken Leung at 2/5/2001 5:24 PM EST
Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School. In Reply to: Wedge and Solenoids Posted by Eric Kubo on 2/5/2001 4:13 AM EST: Well the wedge doesn't have to fit under the bridge. Remember those handles on the side of the bridge? If you have a sharp and big enough shape to go under that handle, then you can probably raise the bridge from the side of the bridge. Just push toward it and the handle should slide up because of the wedge shape of the robot. But that will require good driving skills and the robot will have to line up with the bridge pretty well to do it well. But then again, you don't need to use the handles all the time. One way I suggest is to make a flat and thin piece of steel at the end of your wedge. So just sit next to the bridge, and whenever the bridge comes down, it will land on that flat piece and you won't have to worry about trying to go under the bridge, and also you don't have to line up the robot too well to do this. And so all you have to do is push and the bridge will go up. But putting the bridge down is a different matter. Maybe your robot is short enough to go under the bar, so you just have to head over to the other side's handle and raise the bridge on that side so the bridge will be lowered this side. I can totally see robot do this. The wedge robot go over to the other side, and just sits there to raise the bridge so other robots can come over any time, but the bridge will stay lowered on the side of the wedge robot in case any robot needs to go back to the starting side. And whenever robots cross, the bridge will be lowered to the wedge robot side again. A bonus the wedge robot can do is to help balancing by blocking the bridge from lowering pass the balance point. And then pull out and head for the end zone. |
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