Shows what will happen to the trailers of robots that do not show up for a match.
Interesting.
Good Afternoon Teams,
What happens if there arenāt six robots on the field during competition? Six trailers remain in play. Weāve created a bogie wheel to allow unattended trailers to remain in play. A third rover wheel is fitted with a bushing and mounted on the trailer tongue held in place with a clip ring (available from any office supply store. If you have a practice trailer, you might want to create a bogie wheel of your own to experience how this allows the trailer to move during competition.
What happens if there arenāt six robots on the field during competition? Six trailers remain in play. Weāve created a bogie wheel to allow unattended trailers to remain in play. A third rover wheel is fitted with a bushing and mounted on the trailer tongue held in place with a clip ring (available from any office supply store. If you have a practice trailer, you might want to create a bogie wheel of your own to experience how this allows the trailer to move during competition.
14 days until Week One Regionals begin,
See you then!
Take a KOP wheel. Add a bushing (should be plans somewhere). Put on trailer tongue. Put your standard office paper-holding ring through where the pin normally goes. Done.
I can see teams driving their open chassis area with ball pickup devices into that wheel **by accident **(of course) & it becoming an entanglement issue, disabling the robot the remainder of the match so they canāt move much.
Folks who have that type of system, be careful!!! :ahh:
With the bogey wheel attached as shown, these trailers are very easy to push around on the FRP, and will glide several feet.
Dave Brinza has some video of me pushing one ā I guess itās OK to post that somewhere now, since Bill Miller (Director of FRC, and Emperor-of-all-things-official) has āpublishedā FIRSTās plan for unattended trailers.
