pic: 1065 Flipped

[Michelle Celio]

Originally Posted by RollinTDollin

We found this out a few nights ago during practice on our field, when ours almost tipped over coming off the ramp. Luckily there were a few team members nearby to catch it. Going down slow sometimes helps out, but in most cases we climb up the ramp much better than down it. Haha. Anyways, in order to prevent further tippings, we came up with a few tips to help out drivers as they practice.

That link's awesome.

We found that if we go up backwards we can come down fowards no problem =] but it was our first time out there for practice, and it was the first bot to tip, and everyone just was like OH!

Originally Posted by Arefin Bari

Most robots are going to try to get up the ramp at the end of the match (unless the robot shoots from the ramp (I haven't seen a robot do that yet)). If thats the case, then you shoudln't have to worry about getting down the ramp once you are up there.

Yeah we know we wont need to come off the ramp, it's just our shooter wasn't programed, and we wanted to practice getting on the ramp over and over again to get the hang of it, so in order to do that we needed to get off (wow, thats common sense) so yeah thats what happed