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Re: pic: Offseason Drive Idea

I think this is a great idea, it saves a lot of space for the electronics, but i think you should consider that this makes you CoG higher, increasing the change of your robot tripping. Also the cims are way more exposed out there, and you should consider that. The cables coming out of the cims will also be out there, you should check if they wont leave the frame perimeter or get bent too much. Where they are right now unfortunate accidents could happen, even if the chance of someone messing up your wiring out there is low you shoud be very carfeful with that, some teams tend to have the worst luck during the regionals. At NYC this year our main braker was exposed and a team managed to accidentally hit it in a way that it turned our robot off, so i suggest making a case for the cims and the wires if you keep that design.
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