2007's Best Robot Ramps

[Royalpride1070]

This is Team 1070's Lift at Southern California Regionals, lifting 968 and 599. I'm partial, cuz my team built it.. but i feel it is absolutely amazing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqpTMAW6H1s

Tell me what you think

[Coop]

gas springs own. our lift carried us to the semis in LA regional

[Badflea]

yea i have to agree on that. They had the best ramp, it was very easy to climb. We had fun at Peachtree Regional. Now, we are waiting for Palmetto regional haha

[mizscience]

Team 86. By far one of the easiest ramps to climb at UCF and can always be relied on to get two robots 14inches off the ground in a quick and efficient manner.

[Po-ser]

2274 has the most innovative ramp I've seen by far this season. They're a rookie team from New York and they had a little "mousie," as their mentor described to me--a little mini robot embedded in the belly of their drivetrain--drive out and push out their ramp, then drive back, leaving the ramp to sit squarely on the ground. I'll try to post a picture if I find one, but this great design helped them beat us in the finals round and win the New York regional. Definitely a great design, especially for a first-year team.

[Liz Smith]

Originally Posted by Po-ser

2274 has the most innovative ramp I've seen by far this season. They're a rookie team from New York and they had a little "mousie," as their mentor described to me--a little mini robot embedded in the belly of their drivetrain--drive out and push out their ramp, then drive back, leaving the ramp to sit squarely on the ground. I'll try to post a picture if I find one, but this great design helped them beat us in the finals round and win the New York regional. Definitely a great design, especially for a first-year team.

I second a vote for 2274. Their ramp was amazing, and the "mouse" worked really well. Their ramp sat enough above the 12" mark, that it wasn't ever a close call either.

[Sgt. Mammoth]

1816's already been mentioned a couple times, but I can't disagree-- they're by far my favorite robot. I can't wait to see them go into action again down in Atlanta.

Also up in Wisconsin, 93's lifters were pretty awesome, and 2202's ramp was solid and easy to climb.

[SSMike]

Even though they don't have a ramp, I think that team 316 (LunaTecs) Has a great forklift. I personally haven't seen any better. (That's just my opinion)

[JesseK]

I have another pic of 39th AeroSquadron and 1102 Maiken Magic on our ramps too I wish we would have begun our "You Climb 'em You Sign 'em" Campaign at VCU, the ramps would be full of purple signatures showing that this year's game really required an alliance that worked together.

By design, I thought 254's lifts were spectacular. Not only could they deploy and lift in the closing seconds, but they were light and out-of-the-way enough so to allow for an excellent tube-scoring mechanism. Even though a design flaw was discovered in the elims in Vegas, they simply had their alliances adjust when climbing, allowing for consistent ramping when it was needed.

By function, the team that was allied with 233 on Einstein had the best this year I thought. Everyone witnessed the last-second deployment where both robots shot up going from nothing to fully deployed & ramped in the last 5 seconds? That was pretty amazing.

Tips for future ramps: Railings! The main reason people liked the functionality of our ramps was that they could push up and the railings would keep them from falling off. The back railing also kept them from going too far (and running into the robot on the other side). I think any of the bots that had weight to spare could have put 1" high railings on the outer sides so that robots have a MUCH less probability of falling off when trying to ramp quickly.