pic: FRC 1646 Precision Guessworks 07 Robot (4)

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by David Guzman

This bot looks "hot". The ramp looks awesome, thats a great use for your covers.

whats the material on the covers??

The covers are just thin lexan that has been spray painted by the students on the reverse side to reduce the amount of it scraping away.

Originally Posted by Billfred

Looks interesting. Is the ramp and such just a shell that the robot can pull out of to enable more real estate?

The ramp is deployed by the fisher price gearbox on our arm - if you look closely, you'll see a box going around the banebots motor that controls our gripper. This is actually a servo that rotates a piece 90 degrees and allows us to make contact with our ramps and deploy them. We then unlock our shell with another servo, and simply drive out of it - no additional motors required.