Re: Weight Specs for FIRST competition
 

Look, FIRST could make the weight limit 200 pounds and teams would still be overweight. The weight limit is a game challenge, just go with it. Now, there are plenty of strategies for weight reduction if you search about a little bit.

Personally, I don't think the weight limit will change.

just my $.02, Vivek

Re: Weight Specs for FIRST competition
 

At least one of those connections is a safety signal, necessary in order to ensure that the outputs can be shut off when the robot is disabled. I strongly suggest that teams not try to shave off fractions of an ounce by leaving out "unnecessary" wires between the NI 9403 and the Digital Sidecar.

Re: Weight Specs for FIRST competition
 

Dear Santa,

Can you please drop the mandatory bumpers and instead give us 10 extra pounds to work with?

We'll leave out extra cookies on Christmas Eve.

Thanks!


P.S. You might want to rethink giving coal to the kids on the naughty list. With the going price per ton nowadays, they might actually start a very profitable enterprise by all coordinating to sandbag their name onto the naughty list and profiting from all the free coal. You should switch to something non-flammable, like basalt.

Re: Weight Specs for FIRST competition
 

Nooo! I love the bumpers. This was the first year we didn't have our team-sew-er (whom we affectionately named Betsy Ross) sewing on the bumpers inbetween matches because of other teams sharp frames.