Hanging robots and <G31>

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by frank.pendzich

A student just asked if the rules prevented us from shooting a grappling hook over the top of the tower and pulling us up with a cable.

Teach by example, read the rules. Also, you might want to put that in the form of a question if you want an answer.

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by frank.pendzich

A student just asked if the rules prevented us from shooting a grappling hook over the top of the tower and pulling us up with a cable.

the max height you can extend to is 90" and the bar is at 7' i.e. 84", so unless you can get it to fire between a 6" window while staying within the 84" cylinder during the final period sure... but there are far simpler solutions.

making sure your team has a full understanding of the rules while designing is very important.

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by frank.pendzich

We're thinking about hanging off the virticle support posts on the tower. Our question is... Are the towers secured so they won't fall over with 130lb robot clamped on to one of it's verticle posts?

I think a robot in full trim should be able to hang off of one of the vertical support posts. I'd imagine, that the tower and it's mounting system was designed with a safe working load of about 900lbs or more. (900 lbs being derived from 6 robots hanging from the tower in some strange crazy illegal instance) The only thing you may experience while hanging is some slight warping of the bar, maybe a half inch to an inch at most.

[SamMullen]

Look at page 8 of the "arena section" in the game manual. It shows the ball return as being above the top of the tower, and no parts of the tower have black tape, so I think you can safely latch onto all four sides.

[DarkAndroid]

That's a bummer
But.....you can hang onto another robot with your design though....
Good Luck

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