pic: 66 robot 'Atlas' wingspan view

[JoeXIII'007]

Originally Posted by 1derboy

Sweet bot, but I see no arm. Am I just blind or are you guys running without the use of a arm this year? Plus how long are those things?

You're not blind... there are no arms... thus its peaceful...

As far as full length... ~15ft if not more ~7ft a piece

Originally Posted by bill_hancoc

wow...you could hold both you teamates and the other alliance with that spread.

not quite, it can still only hold two because the cylinders act as protection from robots falling off.

Originally Posted by BBnum3

I love the pneumatic lifters I am seeing this year, and this one looks like one of the best. One thing i can't tell from the picture is how you get the cylinders to extend straight up without getting in the way. My team struggled to figure out how to do that and I was wondering how you did it.

During the planning phase, I had proposed and built a VEX prototype of a robot that would stand up like a picture frame before match start (I'll get a picture up of this, its the same concept). During autonomous the arm holding the bot up would swing up, landing the bot, and then be capable of putting tubes up on the rack as well by driving by. This really got ideas flowing on my team. The pneumatic tubes in this case, start flat at ramp level, and then by the activating of another tube after the robot parks, the large tubes flip up (lever system) and then can be activated to lift the robot up.

Trust me, once you see it, it will all make amazing sense.