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• Prototyped rolling shaft (12in 8020, parallel brackets on end to mount oversized bearing as "wheel")
• attached to wooden ramp w/ door hinge
• protruding wood screw tips are clipped w/ bolt cutter & covered w/ foam & duct tape

• wooden plank too thin, probably not enough to support weight of a full robot, might need to either
  • use nonadrive for testing, or
  • attach 2 - 2x4s on the bottom along the length of the ramp near edges where robot's wheels would be
• 2 cinderblocks are taller than wheeled support
• --> when lifted up w/ the support bar the ramp is still kinda tilted
• --> the wheeled support bar is mounted at 90º angle to the ramp --> when "deployed" it's not perpendicular to the ground
• --> can be fixed by jamming something in the back of the hinge but I don't think it'll be that big of an issue

• attach piston on bottom
• put cinderblock on top to test the lifting function
• find what size/length piston & attachment location would lay flat when folded and holds support shaft perpendicular when deployed
• check the angle & test with nonadrive?
  • see how steep the ramp can go and and the drivetrain can still successfully climb on
• determine piston size for CAD team

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