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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
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.)
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We cut off 6.5" because of the weight issue. When we went for inspection, we were a hair too long, probably no more than .25". We measured our robot afterwards and our measurements indicated that the robot was 38" long. We measured the size of the box (with the inspectors' permission, of course) and found that is was 37.875".
As for your parenthetical question, some of our team members were pretty upset and tried to "fudge it" and make the robot fit, but as the rules and past experience tell us, there's no two ways about it. If the robot doesn't fit, it's too big. And that's what I told my team.