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Originally posted by Simeon
the bins should definitely be reconsidered for the next competition. 2 robots crashing into a bin will most likely destroy the box. we were just randomly dropping the boxes to calculate the probability of which side they landed on... just around 3 drops and all the white "stress" marks were visible on the bins.
i think the idea of the game is good, but they should have thought of something more durable.
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You are all assuming that the intent of the game is to have robots handle the bins as if they were soccer balls, with no concern about handling forces.
That's an interesting idea.
But perhaps the game was designed with the thought in mind that CAREFUL handling of the bins would be advantageous, and one of the "challenges" of the game would be to design a big, fast, powerful robot that could withstand large impact forces while gently handling objects as delicate as eggs...
Hmmm. That's a DIFFERENT interesting idea...
-dave
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Y = AX^2 + B.... ehhh, whatever.