
30-01-2012, 08:51
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Alumni turned Mentor
AKA: Branden Gunn
 FRC #4761
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Rookie Year: 1996
Location: Reading, MA
Posts: 876
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Re: Bumper question
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Originally Posted by Ed Law
It is taking FIRST a very long time to answer my simple bumper question in Q&A. While I can wait a little longer before I print numbers on bumpers, I can't keep waiting before I finalize on the robot design. Therefore I have decided to do the silliest thing and to let the bumper rule about size/stroke of the numbers decide how wide my front bumpers are just so we as a 4 digit team can fit our numbers onto the bumper. My front bumpers are now about 11.5 inches wide on each side which forced us to narrow our ball intake width.
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Totally agree with Al here. Something as simple as numbering should not drive your design decisions. 8" Bumpers plus the corner filling noodle is plenty of space for 4 digits that meet the rules (including being legible). Even if you don't have a corner noodle (which you should), you can still get legible digits into 8".

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