Since Week 4, our team has been working on a T0 climb that deploys to the traversal bar and pulls our robot up after the round ends with pneumatics.
Due to the latest team update, we won’t be running this at champs, but we wanted share it anyways.
Special thanks to Team 6328 for the idea from a few weeks ago!
Here’s how it works:
When robot is disabled, pneumatics reset do their default state automatically
We have a grappling hook on our robot that is locked in with a pneumatic with default state in
We have a massive 2" Bore, 12" Stroke pneumatic strapped to the side of our robot and bolted to our superstructure that is also default state in
When robot is disabled, our locking pneumatic disengages and releases the grappling hook that flies up to grab onto the traversal bar. The lifting pneumatic disengages more slowly with the help of a flow control valve to pull the robot up.
This is so cool, I wish we could have seen this compete, the idea of having a slow retraction at the same time that a fast extension is something I never thought of. See y’all in Houston.
Sorry, kinda neglected to mention that in the post haha. We have a surgical tubing slingshot that’s tied to the launcher plate and its hooked around the base of the grappling hook.
It’s important to consider different signals one could put off by responding to two different teams trying the same mechanism with either praise or anger about a team update.
Does that make the whole thing annoying to reset? also, how much does the hook assembly weigh? Also, did you have to calculate how much you would need to pull the hook inside the sligshot to get enough force for the sling to the rung, or did you prototype/wing it?
