Thread: Bump or bridge?
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Re: Bump or bridge?

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Originally Posted by ThirteenOfTwo View Post
Designing a robot to cross the bump adds additional design constraints for both your intake and your drive, and saves you... not that much time. The decision you have to make is whether or not the fairly small amount of extra time is worth designing an intake and drive to cross the bump.
My team has currently determined that it shouldn't be overly hard to get over the barrier with kitbot West Coast Drive (without any testing mind you), and if we find that we can't do it with the kitbot drive, we will create a mechanism to get over. Designing the intake to deal with that is going to be a challenge, especially going into this planning to not use pneumatics.

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