pic: 1726 Ramp Progress

[s_forbes]

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[dpraedan]

Are you using any additional supports to compensate for the holes you drilled?

[Wedge34]

1 bot?

[Aratarin]

So, with on this robot with those two strips for wheels to drive up on, wouldn't that require the teammates robot's wheels to be a specific width apart?

[Adam Richards]

Originally Posted by Aratarin

So, with on this robot with those two strips for wheels to drive up on, wouldn't that require the teammates robot's wheels to be a specific width apart?

And also wouldn't this eliminate teams using H/J shaped omni wheel drives or kiwi drives from being able to climb your ramp?

[s_forbes]

Yup, 1 bot ramp. The holes are flanged to add structural integrity and to provide a good sticky surface for robots to get up on. It's suprisingly light and strong!

As for the width, we realize we cannot fit all bots. Our ramp is a failsafe in the rare case that we have no working ramp bot on our team and one of our alliance members has the appropriate footprint to fit. Our team's main scoring ability is the arm.

[BHS_STopping]

Originally Posted by Adam Richards

And also wouldn't this eliminate teams using H/J shaped omni wheel drives or kiwi drives from being able to climb your ramp?

Well, we have our ramp designed so that it can easily support a kit-bot frame. We plan to hold 1 robot, while our other team mate either prevents the other team from getting onto their ramp or just scores extra ringers. We also decided that there were going to be many, many ramp bots out there, and that our ramp would only really be useful if our alliance situation was looking grim.

Anyway, we've got the whole ramp almost done, save for a few minor things. It easily supported last year's robot (my avatar), which had a rather narrow wheelbase.

We'll see how everything turns out. Hopefully, most (non-omni) robots will be able to get onto our ramp. I'm sure that if we do have an omni bot on our team, it would more than likely be able to score very quickly, making it more useful on the field than on our ramp.