Can your robot go under the bar?

Is your team planning on having the robot be able to go under the bar?

If not, why?

Jill

Take a look at the discussion here:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16025

The only reason to not build a robot that go under the bar is that 14" is really small to fit under, and some of your ability might be limited if you choose to build a robot that small.

The top of ramp is so slipery and huge that most robot should be able to pass through it during matches.

I have a feeling some would rather stack up 15 bins than go under the bar, or have the ability to protect a stack with the whole robot.

I don’t think the choices of this poll are indicative of all possibilities.

*Originally posted by M. Krass *
**I don’t think the choices of this poll are indicative of all possibilities. **

hmm, yes, i don’t either. also, what about if someone made a modular bot, in which in one mode it could, but couldn’t in other modes? need more choices! :stuck_out_tongue:

please people! im just asking a really simple question. if it isn’t yes or no, then say maybe! if the robot @ any point in the competition can go under the bar your answer is: YES!

if it can not go under the bar at any point of the competition, say: NO!

and if you feel like being secretive or have not decided yet, say:Maybe/ Not Saying.

please submit ur answer. im just trying to find this out for my teams sake.

:ahh:

jill

In theory, yes :slight_smile:

  • Katie

*Originally posted by Katie Reynolds *
**In theory, yes :slight_smile:

  • Katie **

Good point. Our current design will let us go under, but if we can’t fit everything we need in 14", that may change sometime around week 5 or early week 6…

what robot???

:wink: :frowning: :confused:

Yes, No, Maybe So

im sry, i wasn’t listening… could u say that again?

Perhaps, its a possibility, :stuck_out_tongue:

My team probably will. Most of the designs we’ve come up with have an arm to stack and thus can fold down. Also we have a design of a giant box, like the ball gatherers from last year that could fit under the bar and of course internally stack boxes.(A really cool method :wink: ) I think every team could but I don’t think it is that necessary. My team is just afraid of the moving wall that we can’t get past. (we don’t want to build one though :wink: too boring) Remeber pieces of the robot can always start vertically and then fold down. I’ve heard the horror stories of Chiefdelphis robot two years ago ^_^.(i wasn’t there) They’re all terrified of them now.

good luck!

anyone who remebers 25 from 2001 will understand this :

who says you gotta go under the bar, there is another direction you could take :stuck_out_tongue:

We’re designing it so that the robot will go under the bar…but there’s always a possibility of failing =(

thanks for the feedback.

jill

*Originally posted by “Big Mike” *
** anyone who remebers 25 from 2001 will understand this :
who says you gotta go under the bar, there is another direction you could take :stuck_out_tongue: **

If you don’t know team 25:
http://www.firstrobotics.net/01gallery/025-3.jpg

*Originally posted by rbayer *
**Good point. Our current design will let us go under, but if we can’t fit everything we need in 14", that may change sometime around week 5 or early week 6… **

Don’t say that!

*Originally posted by Gadget470 *
**If you don’t know team 25:
(Image) **

Ok… now that is awesome. :wink:

i saw that at your teams competition, team 25…and i knew from then on that your just plain crazy. but none the less, it is really nice, i’m expecting there to be probably 2 or 3 bots this year able to do that, based off your example from 2001

well, it’s not limited to going under or over the bar. Let’s go through it, heh. :slight_smile:

hey thats a cool idea

As long as you don’t damage the field.