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Re: Cutting corners (on the robot!)

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Originally Posted by gpetilli View Post
sounds like an opportunity to add a steel right angle iron to your bumper to reinforce your bumper. weight goes to the bumper, not the robot and it will fill the gap in the corner.
Adding weight that can be seen as unnecessary to your bumpers can be a bad idea. You're allowed to put as much weight in the bumpers as is necessary to build them, but no more.

("As is necessary to build them" is a vague statement, but that's essentially what the rule is.)
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