Wheel size considerations

[Kage]

Originally Posted by ebarker

so what you are saying is you can do this within 1 / 1000 of an inch ?

do what? climb the ramp?
no, I do not plan on designing that little tolerance...
this is just a theoretical angle based on exact numbers.

there are too many variables to call it that close. As it stands right now, our bot has about 1 and 1/2 inches of clearance over the top of the bump...

[ebarker]

Originally Posted by Kage

no, I do not plan on designing that little tolerance...

sorry about that.. I was just being a wise guy.

If you specify something to to that many decimals that implies your working precision. When you go to college and start your lab work you have to learn to be careful with them newfangled calculators and things or you will hear about it from your prof.

In this exercise I'd say "near bout couple of dozen degrees, give or take a smidgen".

[Kage]

my calculator goes to like 15 digits :|
and it also gives simplified radical answers... like if I do (sin 75) it gives me (√6 + √2)∕4 lol...my calculus teacher made me disable that function

I do plan on having precision, just not that much lol...
Im hoping we can get our fame up and designed before the end of next thursday...
then we can accomodate everyone elses mechanisms, and we can get it built...last year, we didnt have a working frame till week 5