pic: Anyone doing this?

[=Martin=Taylor=]

No we didn't decide to do this, it wasn't even really considered b/c it wouldn't have worked with our design.

But I would like to know what kind of rubber those "rubber tubes" are, both Akash's and the Disco-bot's.

We are going to have an intake roller, and slipping a rubber tube over it for traction sounds like a really elegant solution (as opposed to wraping neoprene whether stripping around it )

[MrForbes]

Have you looked into Plasti Dip spray rubber coating?



they have it at a local Sutherlands store

[Akash Rastogi]

Again this isn't a design we're using.

The rubber that we used last year on our bot's rollers was actually the lining of a rubber innertube. We had just enough at a mentor's house to use and it worked perfectly.

[Cjmovie]

Our team is using a variant of this, which allows for using less rollers to ascend to the top, and also allows the roller system to double as ball storage (without any "hopper", we can hold around 20-25 orbit balls). In fact, we've managed to get the rollers to do everything manipulative on the bot, without any major modifications to the roller system at any point (that is, it's almost symmetrical over a horizontal line through the middle).

We'll post some pictures once we have a 'bot up and running, which hopefully won't be too much longer.

[lynca]

Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII

But I would like to know what kind of rubber those "rubber tubes" are, both Akash's and the Disco-bot's.

The black mat we use is drawer liner from Wal-mart. We use zip ties to squeeze the black mat around a pool noodle.

If we encounter a ball jam the noodle will eventually slip on the 3/4" pvc rod preventing the #25 chain from skipping or stalling the motor.

Check out our gallery for more details, http://2009.discobots.org/node/34

[MrForbes]

We're using black mat from Walmart too, on our helix drive. We have flaps of it sticking out, brushing the balls up the helix. Kind of hard to see in the video because it's on black ABS pipe.

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