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https://youtu.be/Zo0PZK7Rbt8
Now that is interesting.
Looks great guys, happy to see a MAR team has decided to go the route of the winged triple lift.
PTO on your drivetrain?
Can’t wait to see you at Hatboro.
Neat
I can’t wait to see this in action in a match. #TeamWideboi
How well does it work with just 1 extra robot, though? I imagine sometimes you’d need to swap a levitate for a robot for strategic purposes.
Looking good guys.
Looking forward to seeing it in Hatboro as well.
Excited to see a double lifter come out. I can’t wait to see how many teams will be able to reliably do this, it will change the game so much.
It’d be interesting to see how much ground clearance is required to go onto these ramps. I’ve heard of some teams using 4" wheels this season, possibly causing issues with driving onto something like this.
Have you heard how those teams plan on driving over the roughly .875" tall electrical conduits? I’ve seen the same thing and don’t know how teams are planning on dealing with those with such little ground clearance.
May not be ramps…perhaps forks to just drive over and wait for lift?
Can’t wait to check this out at worlds or at districts if I find time between my own team in CHS district.
I have no idea how they will be able to. In a normal WCD configuration, you practically only have barely an inch of ground clearance, not including fastening methods (weld beads, bolt heads, pop rivets, etc.). There are other methods for a drive train such as sheet metal but it still seems difficult. I am more worried about the ramp. We are scraping some at the dead corner using 6" 6WD. After the first day I decided 8 4" wheels was going to scrape quite a bit on the ramp.
I thought about that. Most material has some sort of height, such as if they used 1x1 tubing or 2 x 1 tubing, but I feel like this would actually be a good place to use sheet metal. Just adding slight flanges would make things fairly strong. Can’t wait to see the actual construction of this robot and how practical a design like this turns out to be.
That’s a really quick way to get removed from most people’s pick-lists. Climbing the platform and whatever ramp system bots have available should have been very high on every team’s requirements list.
So we’re actually using 3 4" wheels to a side this year…and have yet to encounter any troubles at all. We have gone over the platform in just about every direction and have not had any problems. The robot has 1.25" of ground clearance.
If you can drive over the field, this should be no problem.
Or you can come fly with us too.