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Unread 13-12-2012, 22:32
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Al Skierkiewicz Al Skierkiewicz is offline
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Re: [FTC]: Concrete?

Kiril,
I would think it is legal under
R02
d. The following additional structural parts, fasteners, and materials are allowed provided that they don’t violate other rules, such as safety, entanglement, <R03>, etc. This includes no limits on quantity and size of the following materials:
1. Raw Material (e.g. metal, plastic, etc.) provided that it is readily available to all teams from standard distributors (e.g. McMaster-Carr, Home Depot, Grainger, etc.). The definition of Raw Material are items before being processed or manufactured into a functional form.
However, there are other rules that might also apply like damage to field and other robots. The Q&A is the final say on this but the local Lead Robot Inspector makes the final call when he/she sees the implementation. I would caution you to make it secure in the robot and not overly heavy. It should not drop lit bits of itself on the playing field and if it should crack I would expect you to be asked to remove it. The Illinois State Champs last week had a team with bricks used for the same reason. The team wrapped them in aluminum foil to prevent any particles from dropping on the field, they had them securely inside the robot and they looked pretty cool the way they were implemented. I passed them as legal.
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