So I need you guys to help me a bit with my homework
Well not exactly, but I am curious and I figured maybe some of you guys have done this kind of thing before. For my college’s Intro to Engineering Design class, my group is tasked with building a Vex robot that needs to climb a few steps of stairs. The challenge is that these stairs are just tall enough (4 inches tall) and just small enough (about 4 inches deep) to make this a very tough challenge.
Got any ideas or experience? We’re not the best brainstormers, but I figured that before my group jumps headlong into our complex and difficult solution that maybe we should see if there’s a remarkably simple one no one’s bothered to point out yet.
While the above posted solutions are very intricate and make for more dynamic robots, I suggest just putting on the all terrain wheels. You know, the ones that are grey crosses with rubber on the ends? These are just about the right size, and if you interlock them ,like this : X+ , then it should work perfectly. Please ask if my explaination is unclear.
Petra Hartman built a stair climbing VEX bot named Bartholomew for her senior project at Lower Marion High School. She came to Downingtown Area Robotics on June 24 2009 to demonstrate Bartholomew.
The link will take you to some pictures of the robot.