DR4B Tray
9 Cube Capacity
141 Unofficial Skills Score
9 point auton (yes we fixed the last cube issue)
(Idk if I’m supposed to post on the forum since most teams aren’t but I figured since we had a tray DR4B people might have some questions so here goes)
Thanks! Though in retrospect the idea behind it was kinda redundant given that we almost never went for the middle tower all season. A 4 bar mini tray would’ve prolly worked better and faster.
Our builder, Ty, was the one who came up with it. In theory, it would allow the rollers to grip onto the cube until right about when the stack was vertical, at which point it would be a small vertical drop, so that the bottom cube is rather lined up with the rest of the stack.
We line up the cube to right about the center of rotation, at which point we can start stacking. As the tray tilts, the rollers are gripping then bottom cube, but at the end of its arc, the rollers splay out to easily drop the cubes and come back out. That way we can ensure that there is just a small vertical drop and that the bottom cube won’t be too far misaligned from the rest of the stack if we were to not do that.