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View Poll Results: How wide is your ramp?
under 28" 3 7.89%
28"-34" 9 23.68%
34"-40" 18 47.37%
40"+ 8 21.05%
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Ramp compatibility & falling

The hybrid ramp/scoring robots I'm seeing are worrying me because their ramps are too thin for normal sized (28x38) robots to climb. (We're probably making our chassis smaller because of that.) If you have a ramp, how wide are you making it?

Also, how are you planning on dealing with tipping while climbing/being lifted? I'm not too worried about falling if we land right side up, but crashing over sideways could do some serious damage to our manipulator... (haha, note the 2005 manipulator bending in my icon)

We could put in a weak joint that will break before the manipulator itself does, but it's still risky =P
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