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Re: Practice

We have a 2/3 field (full length but not full width). It is in the basement of the NVH lab at Chrysler, so it's a fairly long walk and the robot has to go through an elevator to get there.

The ceiling is fairly low, with lights around the edge, so we had to put the rack in a fairly specific place to avoid hitting the lights when scoring high. Lucky for us, the lights are on chains, so if we hit them they don't break.

We also have another rack upstairs for testing, but that is an indoor concrete road so the wheels slip much more easily than they do on carpet.
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