Robot SMASH!!

[team_britespark]

Mark you cannot add skirts to your robot if you did not include them in your stats.

[majinb]

I wanna here some other opinions on this, it is something I would have brought up in the how to improve thread, but Im not all that active there

IF BOTH the front AND the rear of a bot have a wedge with 0 mm GC, HOW do the wheels STILL have a grip on the ground?

The robot will rest on the 2 wedges and the vapour will be grounded I think

[joey_picus]

It depends - you could still be able to move if it was only just 0, but your traction would be low to nonexistant...I was thinking of building something with foam wheels so the clearance is 0 because the tyres are squashed down, but that probably wouldnt work in real life...but the chances are you wont move if both the front and back are 0.

[majinb]

well, weve had the discussion of 0 GC all around wont work!, I believe if both the front AND the back have 0 GC, the same would happen as with 0 GC all around

Cyrilium is a box, it rests on 4 corners, if all those 4 corners touch the ground, it will stand on the corners rather than the wheels

[majinb]

and about your foam wheels Joey, it would work, but you robot would drive as if it had leak tires I think

and Mark, if Cyrilium sudenly has skirts I feel robbed

[joey_picus]

Always good to know these things

My personal opinion is that the best thing to do to make your robot unflippable is to either make it invertible or have a good self righter - skirts are a poor substitute, they will not stop flippers from getting under all of the time.

[majinb]

what realie featherweights are still available?

[joey_picus]

Or you could go old school and go for Bugs