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Unread 17-02-2012, 17:59
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Re: Let's Talk About The Bridge:

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Originally Posted by RRLedford View Post
Since we are able to hang off the SIDE edge of the bridge with less than 1/2 of our width located above the bridge, our partners can drive right past us sitting near the middle. This lets all of three of us remain closer to the center of the bridge as we balance it, making the job much easier than if we had two bots hanging off the ends. None of our alliance needs to go anywhere near the ends to still have a 3-bot balance in elimination round.

-Dick Ledford
We pursued this same idea for a few days very early in the season. We took it far enough to get a rough CAD and even named it Harold. In the end, we abanded it with the other two "out there" ideas we were thinking of (the 179 style and the trollbot style.) It's really cool to see that teams actually built all three of these ideas.