these bins are mad stable just look at this picture else im just mad crazy.
I’d hate to point out the obvious, but if you’ve got your whole weight on top of those bins, that’s a lot of force keeping the bins up. It’d be fairly hard for someone to knock it over as in the pic, though without you, it’d be simple.
some one on our team has stacked 13 and held it for about a min dose that count?
*Originally posted by oneeightytwo *
**+How about that stack of 200 Can you please explain to me (not robot design) how you are going to be able to get 200 boxes on top of each other? I’m having problems comprehending that!!!:ahh: :ahh: :ahh: **
I belive he means that he will lift one box, place it on another, and then lift the bottom box. This will theoretically allow you to lift the boxes to an infinite height (not really, because they will tip, and eventually your stacker will not be able to support all the weight)
Cory
i can stack 5! our robot can stack…err…i duno how many…
*jeremy
I think the highest stack in the game will be ~8 high, and stacks of 2-4 will be more common, anything higher will be a rarity.
my team is trying to stack it to 11. thick, if you have five its 55, your better off keeping it even
*Originally posted by monsieurcoffee *
**Yes, most teams realize that which is why most teams who want to stack high are developing stabilizing devices. **
I must be missing something. How can you stabilize bins without touching them?
I must be missing something. How can you stabilize bins without touching them?
The bins only really need to be stabalized while the robot is moving them. When it sets them down they might, in theory, stay standing.
*Originally posted by Duke 13370 *
**The bins only really need to be stabalized while the robot is moving them. When it sets them down they might, in theory, stay standing.
In theory, but reality is an tottally different topic all together. One of which our team shouldn’t talk about because we have no robot to test our theory’s of reality in reality with.
They might stay standing, but they would make a very nice (and easy) target!
So I’m not sure how long they’d stay standing. And even if you were protecting them, you’d have to do a very good job of keeping any opposing (or allied) robot from jarring you.
Best of luck!
*Originally posted by Duke 13370 *
**The bins only really need to be stabalized while the robot is moving them. When it sets them down they might, in theory, stay standing.
*Originally posted by laurence *
**They might stay standing, but they would make a very nice (and easy) target!
So I’m not sure how long they’d stay standing. And even if you were protecting them, you’d have to do a very good job of keeping any opposing (or allied) robot from jarring you.
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I am dying to see a robot that can stabilize a stack of more than 3 and prevent it from A. being pushed over, and B. being pushed into their robot (therefore = to 0) against a robot designed to destroy stacks.
Our team is planning on stacking 4-5 high everytime a 6th is doable but really we don’t perfer to do so.
Well you see, I earlier had designs, and a great strategy for making neat little pyramids out of bins…or just a random pile, either works, they can only go like 4 high, but they’re hella stable…
Then again, there’s the master plan of stacking 8, with a bot being able to carry/protect up to 4 bins…and can go under the bar…but of course these are just designs…
This year they rejected my ideas and created a communisto roboto, a blocker, a very good one that lifts off the floor for extra grip…and that’s why my designs haven’t come into reality…
As promised, I’d get my designs posted as soon as I find a host robotics member to leech a scanner off of…
Our 'bot is dedicated entirely to stacking. We finished the stacking mechanism on Monday. Yesterday, we realized that we can’t put one box on top of another, let alone having control over the orientation of the boxes.:ahh:
. . . Mmmmm, drawing boards . . .