27-01-2010 17:54

fordchrist675

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Can someone say rocket ship?!

27-01-2010 18:57

RookieWookiez

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Originally Posted by fordchrist675 Can someone say rocket ship?!

27-01-2010 19:02

EricVanWyk

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ooh ooh it looks like the ground plane on the PD between the 12V and 24V power supplies!






Seriously, it looks just like it.

27-01-2010 21:08

fordchrist675

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Originally Posted by EricVanWyk ooh ooh it looks like the ground plane on the PD between the 12V and 24V power supplies! Seriously, it looks just like it.

27-01-2010 21:19

spen

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I think that the rocket sybolizes that an object (maybe a soccer ball) will shoot out of the robot.

27-01-2010 21:30

fordchrist675

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Originally Posted by spen I think that the rocket sybolizes that an object (maybe a soccer ball) will shoot out of the robot.

27-01-2010 21:39

spen

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It shoots a lead weight that wraps around the top crossbeam and then uses a crank to lift the bot off the ground.

27-01-2010 21:44

fordchrist675

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Originally Posted by spen It shoots a lead weight that wraps around the top crossbeam and then uses a crank to lift the bot off the ground.

27-01-2010 21:57

spen

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Now you got me stumped, hmmm, maybe you are going to use a guitar on your robot? or guitar strings? I joined FRC last year so I'm not all to famillar with previous games.

27-01-2010 21:59

fordchrist675

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Originally Posted by spen Now you got me stumped, hmmm, maybe you are going to use a guitar on your robot? or guitar strings? I joined FRC last year so I'm not all to famillar with previous games.

27-01-2010 22:10

jamie_1930

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We had a similair idea to assist robots in getting up to the platform with a ramp like device, similair to 07, but decided it would leave us with no points ourselves in the endgame, and with the assumption with any robot worth going to the finals would have a decent endgame. If this is what your doing.

27-01-2010 22:14

fordchrist675

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jamie_1930 We had a similair idea to assist robots in getting up to the platform with a ramp like device, similair to 07, but decided it would leave us with no points ourselves in the endgame, and with the assumption with any robot worth going to the finals would have a decent endgame. If this is what your doing.

27-01-2010 22:19

imp

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but a ramp bot is a great cooperation bot, and it could make an alliance that doesn't have endgame bots but great offense/defense bots work.

27-01-2010 22:20

spen

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Just to make sure, I'm assuming it has nothing to do about the two paragraphs that are on the centre of the rocket shaped board. It saysd something about antibiotcs. It was to messy to make out most of it.

27-01-2010 22:29

Karibou

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What do you want with a rocket ship? What business do you have on mars...?

I'd kind of really like to know what the text says now...rockets are cool, but robot poetry is better.

27-01-2010 22:42

Stephen of REX

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Nice fold down ramp.

28-01-2010 01:05

Alan Anderson

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It looks to me like a polycarbonate box that will cover a winch mechanism.

28-01-2010 01:11

Chris is me

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Good to see at least one team has the guts to be a ramp this year.

28-01-2010 01:57

Tom I

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Okay who put wings on the crayon??

Nahh, I'm not sure its a ramp... it doesn't look like its got the structural integrity for it... course it might not be done, so you might surprise me! Also, when you do out the geometry for the size restrictions, ramps are kinda hard to do practically. but again, I always love to be surprised with clever designs!

28-01-2010 12:55

fordchrist675

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It is a ramp, just one of our early week 1 and 2 prototypes. The actual one will be much more structurally sound. hopefully still as cool of a rocketship