Hello all,
We ran into a problem where we were placing gears on the lift peg fine to start week 0, but by the end the peg was consistently hitting the bottom of the gear in our robot, when before it was sliding into the lower triangle. We think it might have started drooping over the course of the competition, did anyone else experience this?
I hadn’t seen that, but I did see the little triangle piece on the end fall off.
We have noted a tendency for the spring we test with (and its the official one) to droop a bit after it has been beaten up a bit. I think one can assume a varied environment in competition. Our team added a little servo “kicker” to help the gear stay on better.
TW
I’m sure I’m not the only one who’d like to see a picture or video of “the kicker”.
With many robots ramming into springs, they are bound to start deforming.
Edit: oopsy
Er, come again?