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Touche`

I agree we should make our robots as nice & fancy as possible, with whatever branding we can pull off.

My comment was more aimed at the number limitations this year, and so instead of over thinking it, my opinion is to just follow the rules as written and put your design effort in other aspects of the robot. I would just hate to fail inspection because we "got fancy" with our numbers.

But you know we will see some robot numbers that have some style, are readable and pass inspection.

And we'll probably see some numbers that should not have passed inspection out on the field. Like we have with bumper numbers that have stretched the rules.

~shrug~

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Indeed! Last year we saw a lot of teams with bumpers left on the field for week 1... it was sad. Building robots is hard though... I don't think anyone does it because it is easy.

Personally, we like white and black paint schemes. ;)

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I found some custom downloadable fonts that seem to fit the stroke requirements. If any of these are breaking the rules in some way, or anyone finds some new ones, let me know! I'm fairly certain these come with numbers.


With number preview (just put your team number where it says 1234)
http://www.dafont.com/alte-haas-grotesk.font?text=1234
http://www.dafont.com/upbolters.font?text=1234
http://www.dafont.com/call-of-ops-duty.font?text=1234
http://www.dafont.com/motion-control.font?text=1234
http://www.dafont.com/american-captain.font?text=1234
http://www.dafont.com/font-comment.p...tica&text=1234
http://www.dafont.com/font-comment.p...milk&text=1234

Attachment 18292 so snapdrag sent me vinyl numbers (thanks again you saved my team either a solid 60 dollars or having bad looking numbers).

Basically I cut out pieces of lexan that matched the decal size at school and spray painted them white at home (just used this rust-oleum stuff I had laying around). I then flipped them over and put on the decals. I think the dimension between the peices along with his gray under shadow will make it creative while strictly staying in the guidelines. Also I think it will still look really good with our leds shining throught it.

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This is what we're trying to avoid....right?

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The numbers look great how you applied them on the lexan. I'm glad we were able to help. The subtle grey shadow is neat. How exactly did you do that effect?

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I think he answered that in his explanation.
The white paint is on the back of the Lexan and the numbers are on the front. So with the lexan thickness, it provides a shadow.

Pretty Sweet!

Ironically enough I thought at first that he added the gray shadow when he made them I didn't realize until I brought them to put on the bot why the shadow was there it's a neat affect that I accidently achieved.

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The numbers look great. But unless they are 10 or 12 inches tall, you don't have enough white space around them - an inch is required.

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We looked at a lot of touring cars and the Le Mans series for inspiration for a number plate. I feel that it turned our great.

I think there is about an inch shouldn't be a problem.

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We just aren't going to spend much time worrying about the numbers... I printed off five number tags: Impact, 420 point (black on white paper). I then laminated them. Before each competition we'll tape them prominently and securely on the robot. When showing off our robotic beauty, we'll remove the numbers.... unless there is some nasty cheese-holing or wiring we wish to obfuscate....

Of course, if some bored student decides to come up with a pretty solution that doesn't interfere with robot function or put us over the weight limit, we can use that instead.... Whatever.

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We used some roll material from TwillUSA for the bumper material (adhesive backing in red/blue) and then cut out numbers from a white roll (also with adhesive backing)

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I hope you realize that what you described sounds great for last year's rules, but totally don't match this year's rules, as numbers must be black on white background (and 3.5" tall with .5" stroke minimums and at least 1" of white background around the numbers. )