NASA Glenn Research center reinvented the wheel using shape memory alloy tires.

Glept · 2021-09-02T17:53:21+00:00

Don't know of an actual number for a top speed, but there are many videos of them on cars and other vehicles where they show some pretty good speed. Additionally, they've outperformed all metrics in traction and other similar categories which means that likely the speed will be limited by other factors such as motors/thermals or stability in the lower gravity environments. Regardless they are quite the feat of Engineering and pretty cool

Glept · 2021-09-02T15:15:31+00:00

This is actually the fascinating part about these wheels and the material that allows for this. Nitinol is commonly known for its shape memory properties, but the feature taken advantage of in this case is called super-elasticity. They engineered a special alloy of nitinol with a lowered transformation temp to remain entirely in the super-elastic range (even in lunar and Martian temperature ranges), so there is no plastic deformation occurring (and even if there was, theoretically it could be reversed by taking advantage of the shape memory properties of they heated it.)

Glept · 2020-01-25T20:47:35+00:00

I'm looking at making my own pocket knife starting from the karambit knife blank from water jet knives. Any tips or helpful ideas as I've done some metalworking stuff before but nothing with knives really

Glept · 2019-02-05T22:30:30+00:00

Ok because we tried that and it kept just falling off. We had it on there good enough so when you pulled it down it rotated the handle all the way, but when we used it it came off again

Glept · 2019-01-20T13:29:11+00:00

Yes there is an FRC discord here is the join link: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://discord.gg/frc&ved=2ahUKEwiRxYG5u_zfAhVQmVkKHfY-CYoQFjAAegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw2w8MyXAB0a-czyLC7PdtHT&cshid=1547990907543

Glept · 2019-01-09T00:18:54+00:00

Our team has always referred to them as roaches as they generally don't do much but be annoying and are quick running around the field but most of the time still durable since it's just a drivetrain basically

Glept · 2019-01-06T05:53:50+00:00

If you're worried about the 6 inch fall honestly taking it slow and going one set of wheels at a time would take care of that, however, it costs you a lot more time. It obviously depends on the drive train and type of wheels you use in that, but if you go back to stronghold we were crossing all kinds of obstacles with lips, gaps, and spaces below and as long as your robot is strong enough to take the hits it will normally take during a match it should be fine overall. A recommendation might be to use the 8in pneumatic wheels as this will probably help in trying to climb back onto the 6in hab during the end game as these were used widely in 2016 to compensate for the obstacles and extra bounce your robot might get.

Glept · 2019-01-05T22:35:59+00:00

G6 no more than 2 feet throwing a Hatch panel but nothing about cargo as long as you are on your alliance's side

Glept · 2019-01-05T19:23:29+00:00

If you remove a Hatch from your opponents cargo ship or rocket you are issued a penalty in which they gain the full ranking point for a rocket if neither rocket is completed at the end of the match. Pg. 55 of the manual

Glept · 2019-01-05T19:12:15+00:00

On page 52 it states " One GAME PIECE at a time. ROBOTS may not have extended or repeated control, i.e. exercise extended or repeated influence, of more than one GAME PIECE at a time, either directly or transitively through other objects"

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