02-18-2007 03:07 PM

dpraedan

Re: pic: 1726 Ramp Progress

Are you using any additional supports to compensate for the holes you drilled?

02-18-2007 03:37 PM

Wedge34

Re: pic: 1726 Ramp Progress

1 bot?

02-18-2007 03:43 PM

Aratarin

Re: pic: 1726 Ramp Progress

So, with on this robot with those two strips for wheels to drive up on, wouldn't that require the teammates robot's wheels to be a specific width apart?

02-18-2007 09:13 PM

Adam Richards

Re: pic: 1726 Ramp Progress

And also wouldn't this eliminate teams using H/J shaped omni wheel drives or kiwi drives from being able to climb your ramp?

02-19-2007 01:12 AM

s_forbes

Re: pic: 1726 Ramp Progress

Yup, 1 bot ramp. The holes are flanged to add structural integrity and to provide a good sticky surface for robots to get up on. It's suprisingly light and strong!

As for the width, we realize we cannot fit all bots. Our ramp is a failsafe in the rare case that we have no working ramp bot on our team and one of our alliance members has the appropriate footprint to fit. Our team's main scoring ability is the arm.

02-19-2007 01:14 AM

BHS_STopping

Re: pic: 1726 Ramp Progress

Well, we have our ramp designed so that it can easily support a kit-bot frame. We plan to hold 1 robot, while our other team mate either prevents the other team from getting onto their ramp or just scores extra ringers. We also decided that there were going to be many, many ramp bots out there, and that our ramp would only really be useful if our alliance situation was looking grim.

Anyway, we've got the whole ramp almost done, save for a few minor things. It easily supported last year's robot (my avatar), which had a rather narrow wheelbase.

We'll see how everything turns out. Hopefully, most (non-omni) robots will be able to get onto our ramp. I'm sure that if we do have an omni bot on our team, it would more than likely be able to score very quickly, making it more useful on the field than on our ramp.