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Originally Posted by nitneylion452
It ended up being over-weight (which we knew and had a half decent plan for) and too long (though our measurements begged to differ). We had to remove our minibot deployment system and cut the frame down by 6.5" all in day 1 just to pass inspection.
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I just want to verify something: you cut 6.5 in off, but surely that wasn't the difference between your measurement and the measurement taken at inspection? By how much did the inspector say the robot was oversized? (And was this controversial, or obvious from way it didn't fit in the sizing box?)
As far as lessons go, that's one that can't be emphasized enough. The size limits are
limits. There's not supposed to be any positive tolerance, so teams should design whatever tolerance they need into the robot. (Make it an inch undersized in all dimensions, for example.)