*Originally posted by XRaVeNX *
**what are most wedges used for? hehehhee
Hey, does Woburn have any pictures of their robot on their site yet? I wanna see **
I am just going to take a wild guess, and say that the wedge is used to push other robot, thus gaining traction on your robot and reducing traction on the opponent robot.
Of course I am save to assume that this wedge won’t be used to tip other robots on their sides, right?
in one of the videos it looked like the robot grabbed onto the goal by pushing inward on 2 of the casters. Did you actually design it to grab casters???
oh no. They arn’t grabbing the castors…lol
That would be very hard and against the rules. Cuz u arn’t allowed to have anything that goes under the goal’s bottom.
The only way allowed to grab the goal is the metal pipes… and that’s what we used.
I knew it wasn’t allowed. thats why I was surprised when I watched the video. I just wanted to make sure that what I thought I saw wasn’t what was actually there
I just watch the video clip in another thread, and I was surprised at what the wedge shape on your robot actually do… It went under another robot, and pulled it away… At least I think that’s what I saw.
I guess there got to be some teams that will be dragging other robots around…
*Originally posted by XRaVeNX *
**what are most wedges used for? hehehhee
Hey, does Woburn have any pictures of their robot on their site yet? I wanna see **
No pics on the site quite yet as Justin said (we’re going to release the robot slowly), but there are three pics of our patented gearbox under the thread entitled ‘HexaDrive.’
By the way…that wedge is looking pretty dangerous. We may have to use the cannon on you…
ooo… 6 motor drive system… problem is that although u have all that power, do u have enough traction? Cuz power without traction is useless, the wheels just spin. But I saw a picture of u’re wheels… looks impressive…
And what is the cannon? background thunder noise AHHHH!! /me runs and hides… lol
Well, actually the wheels by not providing “perfect” traction (i.e. no slipping whatsoever) is good. During a practice competition, we were able to beat a 6-motor drive system robot (not mentioning the robot) mainly because they had more traction and because of that, their 60amp breaker broke. Our wheels spinning actually prevents any breaker from breaking.
And oh ya, Woburn, congrats on u’re robot. It looks excellent. I especially love the wheels and gearbox. They were amazing. Good luck at the Regionals!
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