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Re: Crazy robot idea for this year 2

The SAE competition is where I heard about the guys losing fingers. (I didn't actually see the incident--I was most likely fixing my team's plane.)

Indoor RC flight tends to be with very lightweight electrics, often foam, in fairly large venues like large-size gyms. Something the weight of an FRC control system would need a ton more power than one of those flyweights, just to get off the ground. (And that's assuming that you were allowed to power with lipos. Hauling the SLA around, that's slightly insane.)

Flying a very small RC off of a robot could be done with comparative safety. However, it would be very difficult to also have it tethered to the robot.
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