Time for a challenge
Challenge #1
Get your robot back in the gear up combination. Now, create a ramp using the resources available in your home. Try implementing a different height for this ramp and reach a point where your robot is no longer capable of going up that ramp in this gear up combination!
Figure 5.23 – Representation of the setup
The height of this ramp = ________ cm.
Now, change your gear combination, so that it's in the gear down combination and see whether it can cross this ramp. I am sure it will. This is because the robot is slower, but its torque is quite high! Can you find a height for this ramp where this robot can't climb, even when using the gear down combination?
The height of this ramp = _______ cm.
One major conclusion we can draw from this chapter is that when you try to gain one thing, you lose the other. For example, when you gain speed, you lose power and vice versa! It takes a lot of engineering prowess...
