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Originally Posted by Bill_B
It has been a long day with robots of plastic and aluminum at both ends. We're slow and were doing full-scale modeling to determine our compliance with 54" rule in its prior form. Now I read of the rules change and that several teams are feeling that their initial designs are now illegal. This is where the tired part comes in. I'm having trouble imagining how something legal for the vertical cylinder is now illegal for a tilted one. I'm sure those are right, just in a FRC fog at the moment I guess.
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If your robot was cimbing up the outside of a leg (and was short), with your starting configuration parallel to the leg, you had a >54 inch long ellipse to reach/manipulate/etc with.
edit: just imagine slicing a plane through a vertical 54 inch cylinder at a 60 degree angle.
edit2: this is only one example