pic: Team 1345, end of week 4.

[Arefin Bari]

Originally Posted by Rich Ross

Hey Arefin (and all the platinum Dragons),

I like the ramp system, seems like a good idea for a ramp system. I have a couple questions though.

1. What keeps robots from driving up your ramp, then driving right onto your chassis/electronics? I'm sure you thought of this, i just dont see the system in this picture.
2. How do you lower the ramps/platforms? can you raise them back up if need be?

Just some food for thought.

Rich, thanks for your comment. Here are the answers...

1. We will put some kind of stop there (a bar of some kind) that will hold the robot back from hitting our arm or drive past the ramp structure and fall on the electronics.

2. How? we have few different ideas. I will share it with you and the community as soon as we figure out which would be the best way for us to do it. When raised the ramp looks like an upside down V. We don't want to raise the ramps back up once we deploy them. Plan is to drive back to the homezone with enough time to move all the tubes out of the way and then deploy the ramps for our alliance partners, giving them enough time to climb up. The ramp starts off at a 5 degree angle and slowly goes up to 20 degrees.