21-02-2007 23:35

Travis Covington

Re: pic: Team 456 (2)

Looks great. One question, what force gas springs did you guys chose to use?

22-02-2007 00:07

ChuckDickerson

Re: pic: Team 456 (2)

Two 175 lb per lift, 4 total on the bot.

22-02-2007 01:21

jparkteach

Re: pic: Team 456 (2)

How do you release the gas springs? And how to you retract them back after the match? It looks really nice! Great job!

22-02-2007 01:42

Stvn

Re: pic: Team 456 (2)

I'm sorry if I'm not seeing it, but how do the robots get onto the lifts?

22-02-2007 08:16

jfish456

Re: pic: Team 456 (2)

The lifts fold down as ramps and when the robot drives on the ramps and presses against the trigger the gas springs releas pushing our linkbars out and lifting the robot. here is a link to a video a couple days before ship. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JWFE...%2Fvid1%2Ehtml we have fixed the problem of the lifts being so hard to trigger. ill try to get a better video up that shows us deploying the ramps and lifting robots

22-02-2007 11:18

jfish456

Re: pic: Team 456 (2)

we have a trigger system that release the springs when the robot pushes against it. it is activated by the other robot