What board works best?

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What type of boards does everyone use, so XRP operates smoother on it? I have used poster boards for smaller areas and they are not too bad. I recently bought what is called an MDF board (4ft x ft) from Lowe’s that you can write on and erase so we have a larger area that we can program XRP. It doesn’t seem to work very well. Even when you execute small program to go straight over 40+ cm, it doesn’t do it very well. Any recommendations? Thanks.

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There is a typo in my post. It should say (4ft x 4ft).

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I don’t have a good answer to your specific question–friction is a challenge and our 4’x8’ maze surface is relatively smooth (made from a sheet of ferrous material.) My students found that a wide rubber band around the wheels does wonders, plus they added mass between the rear wheels. Each was beneficial and together substantially better consistency was achieved.

Hope this helps,

Kevin

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Hi Kavin,

Thanks for the recommendation, I appreciate it. We will give it a try.
Ali

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| kstanton
June 17 |

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I don’t have a good answer to your specific question–friction is a challenge and our 4’x8’ maze surface is relatively smooth (made from a sheet of ferrous material.) My students found that a wide rubber band around the wheels does wonders, plus they added mass between the rear wheels. Each was beneficial and together substantially better consistency was achieved.

Hope this helps,

Kevin

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We use a dry erase board removed from it’s stand for the shape drawing exercise. We definitely see a lot of slippage which is an opportunity to connect the dots for them on what slippage is and so on, and to have them adjust speed or effort to try to improve that. Since it’s a limited exercise we haven’t tried to optimize movement on that part.

The XRPs run well on the “mat” that comes as part of the orbit game. I’m not sure if that is material you could purchase separately but might be worth looking into. We added a ramp to the game and used the “rough” side of MDF for better traction.

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Thanks for your suggestions. We will give a try with the rough side of MDF board to see what happens.

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| MichelleE2
June 19 |

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We use a dry erase board removed from it’s stand for the shape drawing exercise. We definitely see a lot of slippage which is an opportunity to connect the dots for them on what slippage is and so on, and to have them adjust speed or effort to try to improve that. Since it’s a limited exercise we haven’t tried to optimize movement on that part.

The XRPs run well on the “mat” that comes as part of the orbit game. I’m not sure if that is material you could purchase separately but might be worth looking into. We added a ramp to the game and used the “rough” side of MDF for better traction.